Quitting time in Huntsville. Still enough work to justify a local based here.

The 0700 yard job returns to Hamilton yard with 35 cars by the waterfront on a warm autumn afternoon. In the back is the 0800 triple set that is switching the West side of Ham yard.

GTW GP38-2 5849 rests between assignments at the CN yard in Hamilton.

The 0700 job heads back to the east end of Hamilton Yard.

GTW GP38-2 5849 leads the 0700 Hamilton Yard job out of "The Hole" heading back to the yard.

GTW GP38-2 5849 looks great as it performs some switching moves deep in Hamilton's industrial area.

The 0700 Hamilton Yard job passes MANA (Max Aicher North America) with one gondola.

In great blue and red paint, GTW GP38-2 5849 heads back towards the yard at Hamilton with 35 cars from the N&NW spur.

As it casts a reflection in a nearby puddle, CN 587 (GP38-2W) and CN YRP051 (GP38-2) assigned power wait for the call into Rivière-des-Prairies Yard's shop tracks. With this Battle Creek Blue GTW... (more)

GTW 5849 shoves a boxcar of newsprint across the diamond and towards the loading bay of the Decatur Herald & Review.

The GTW 5849 sits in Woodcrest.

In the early 1980's, the Grand Trunk Western was looking to add to their roster as traffic and profits rose. In addition to acquiring a large number of Ex-UP SD40-2's, they also acquired a small a... (more)

GTW GP38-2 5849, still wearing its Pittsburgh & Lake Erie paint, sits at the diesel shop in Battle Creek.

L563 is on the roll out of Waterloo as they hit their 1st major drift east of Raymond. This job ran out of Waterloo with 2 GP 38's and 7 cars. Their mission today is get all the work done on the D... (more)

A visitor to the prairies of Illinois teams up with a native Illinoisan today.