Two HLCX motors lead two plastics hoppers East on the WSOR L351.

The early morning sun greets a pair of HLCX motors leading a slightly overpowered train on the across the Wisconsin & Southern Fox Lake Sub. While two SD40-2s for two cars may seem a bit excessive... (more)

HLCX 6313 passes through a rock cut as it approaches the small town of North Freedom, WI. The train is heading west on the WSOR’s Reedsburg Subdivision during an afternoon thunderstorm.

Wisconsin & Southern train T-005 prepares to depart Janesville Yard with HLCX 6313 and WAMX 6029 on a rainy May evening.

Normally being a middle of the night run into the Belt Railway Of Chicago’s Clearing Yard, a late and rare daylight WSOR T-004 makes its way south on the BRC Kenton Line and is seen here crossin... (more)

HLCX 6313, an SD40-2 on lease to the Wisconsin & Southern, sits as two WSOR jobs switch in Madison Yard on a cold January morning.

Three HLCX SD40-2s in three different paint schemes team up with a WSOR SD40-2 as they lead a late T2 south around Midway airport.

A rare daylight run of the WSOR in Chicago is captured as three leased HLCX SD40-2's (all three of different flavors) and a WSOR SD40-2 make way through LeMoyne.

An off-time T3 thunders north on the main at Ackerville.

One of the last units operating in the once ubiquitous HLCX maroon & blue paint. Oddly enough, it started out life as an NdeM SD40.

Q375 hustles west across the bridge over the marina at McKeesport with a one of a kind HLCX SD40-2 leading the way.

Ex NdeM SD40 #8582 now rebuilt into HLCX SD40-2 #6313 leads CSX empty autorack train Q210 (Cayce,SC - Louisville,KY) up a grade out of Atlanta and through the prominent kudzu.

After making a morning run south/west on the Abbeville Subdivision, CSX Q210, led by an ex-NdeM SD40-2 now owned by Helm Leasing, pulls into Tilford Receiving Track 5 to tie down. This train is de... (more)

The systemwide power crunch of 2014 has seen droves of leasers returning to CSX, offering railfans a little throwback to the early 2000's when seemingly every other train had leased power somewher... (more)