On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Q135 crosses the bridge at Powell's Creek - approximately 30 miles south of the Pentagon. The attack will be remembered for exposing our vulnerabilities, but also ... (more)
On a cloudy afternoon, as the Housatonic NX-12 local switches it’s interchange cars beside the Boston Line Main, westbound freight Q425 rumbles off the hill past QR-148 with head end ballast car... (more)
Southbound intermodal curves through downtown Hartselle, AL, passing the former L&N freight house (now a restaurant) and some ancient-looking industrial trackage.
A trio of CSX GEVOs haul a loaded phosphate train westward over the Altoona Sub. I'm not sure what the story behind this train is as it's the first phosphate train that I've seen on the Altoona Su... (more)
CSX K185 is returning to the Toledo Docks empty in the early morning sun as it rolls past Stanley tower towards E. Broadway on the Toledo Terminal.
CSX hopper train T734 heads back west up the former C&O piedmondt sub for more coal. This train more often then not follows the rivanna sub up the river route to go back west for more coal.
CSXT 775 is the first of 15 ex-CR SD70MAC units that CSX acquired. This unit is to be renumbered to #4575.
Filthy is still attractive if it is CR blue! Waiting to proceed EB next to a pole with many code lines, warped but still standing.
D742 (on the left), waiting on 4-runner for its departure east to Benning, is visited by a pair of engines.
Southbound coal train rounding the bottom loop at Ashford.
Still in Conrail paint CSX 775 and 781 take a coal train west bound across Coal River. Canon D20/Canon 18-55 zoom. With so few sunny days, I guess its only natural that Brian Gessel and I end up... (more)
Nice set of matched CR 70MAC's with loads westbound off the Coal River Sub
A pair of ex-Conrail SD70MACs bracket a Union Pacific SD40-2 on a westbound.
