Working hard to reach the rather unspectacular summit of the grade just east of town this train fetched me from my work at my son's greenhouse for a little break. Ya gotta set your priorities.

Mälartåg regional service 126 Hallsberg to Stockholm

"Hastings" (my nickname for it anyway) is rolling through the beautiful campus of this small (but growing) liberal arts school. They will pause briefly on the main at CP Glade and we'll... (more)

The old reliable glorified local Chattanooga to Roanoke is dragging thru a swag just east of "town". Way in the back is a bit of color, always a welcome sight in the land of what seems ... (more)

A minor battle won, having topped the hump coming east out of Abingdon this mixed, semi local, that works the major yards, is beginning to get a little roll on as it progressed across the Old Domi... (more)

Imagine my surprise to find a UP on the EB “gut” freight. The second unit was a four-axle, actually working. The first one I’ve seen here in literally years.

Imagine my surprise to find a UP on the EB “gut” freight. The second unit was a four-axle, actually working. The first one I’ve seen here in literally years.

The regular morning mixed freight rolls those the edge of the nice old hamlet. They usually meet somebody at Glade, one of only two 10,000 Ft sidings between Bristol and Radford. Rumored to be c... (more)

The most ridiculously long freight scheduled on this line gingerly threads the curves, vertical and horizontal, that make this area infamous for train separations. Seen here approaching a signal ... (more)

DPU on this EB freight is almost always buried in the train but on this date I got lucky. We had UPs on their opposite number. A most unusual day here in monochrome land.

With four units, one offline, this eastbound mixed freight has a speed limit of 30MPH but may have been making 20 at best as he heels into a curve east of town.

With a DPU down and a huge train on unable to proceed considering tonnage grades etc. they are waiting while conductor ties down 40+ brakes on the section behind the DPUs. It’s 12:38. They’... (more)

This train of junk freight didn’t have a prayer, maximum tonnage, minimum power, then on the downgrade their one AC, a DPU, blew an engine. Maximum grades ahead. Setting brakes, moving all p... (more)

The electric locomotive ChS4-046 just stopped on a Boryspil station with a passenger train #126 Kyiv - Konstiantynivka.

Emory & Henry College is a great small liberal arts school located in a beautiful rural setting, made more beautiful today by two newly rebuilt units, 100 numbers apart. For some reason 4313 was ... (more)