Jersey Central Heritage Engine leading 127 through the now gone City Yard in Knoxville

After meeting its EB counterpart at the long siding this high class semilocal is accelerating away toward Bristol, the next point where it switches. Interestingly there is a large woodchuck "... (more)

Leading a type of train given many names, none flattering. This one switches several yards on its way to the destination, and runs on a MATS priority. Make it arrive tomorrow sometime. Meadow U... (more)

On a sunny almost-winter day, fresh from a meet with 12Z at Glade, this westbound merchandise train is racing through another small community like so many that lie along Virginia's artery connecti... (more)

Hauling a big mix of everything this mundane merchandize is dressed up today with a celebrity unit. The train is operating on a track that has bisected this small campus since Civil War days. Th... (more)

#127 is in the hole, crew out of time, will deadhead with 201. Big delays because NS is shipping pipes made for the cancelled Keystone pipeline to Louisiana. With a cut of the high and wides in ... (more)

WB mixed freight, shorter than usual and no DPUs today.

On a nice spring day EB intermodal #23G with 1100 is holding the main for a meet with giant WB mixed freight #127. Today they’ve managed to avoid Maple St. This is not popular with the local c... (more)

Two cogwheel push-pull trains of the Rigi Bahnen are running up the mountain on sight distance on this day of high passenger frequency. In the background Bhe 2/4 # 11 with cab car Bt # 21, in the ... (more)

In summertime, on wednesday there is "Rigi Historic Day" with vintage vehicles in timetabled services. Here the worldwide oldest operational cogwheel railcar BCFhe 2/3 # of 1911, built f... (more)

Sometimes you just have a great day. C of G heritage unit in the AM and a “foreigner” in the PM. Unusual to see a single unit on the point of any NS train. Two DPUs are helping out further ... (more)

This mixed freight catches all the low priority stuff. Today they are ferry power west for whatever reason.

That is more like it! PC I mean. This commemorative is getting a bit ratty with a patina which is reminiscent of its namesake as it charges thru town leading a monster train at speed.

A shorter than usual train must have resulted in several DIT units on the front as the “gut” train rolls along just east of town. A foreign unit is very rare these days.

Cogwheel railcar BDhe 2/4 # 14 with cab car Bt # 24 of the Rigi Bahnen, built in 1967 for the Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB), is running up the mountain above Rigi Staffel as second train 127. In the backgr... (more)