At sunset on a summer evening, a Boston & Maine SW9 works the largely empty yard at White River Junction, VT. Milepost 14 gives the distance to Windsor, where ownership of the Connecticut River Li... (more)
A Boston snowstorm is winding down as Amtrak's South Station switch crew grabs a draft to pull it down to the Southampton Street yard. RS3M 106 was one of three Amtrak RS3s that were re-engined wi... (more)
Baltimore & Ohio 9256 was a boxy Baldwin DS-44-1000, one of 49 switchers of that model on the B&O roster. In the summer of 1970 it was working yard duty at Benwood Junction outside Wheeling, WV.
A fresh coat of black paint has transformed New Haven RS1 0671 into Penn Central 9946. Along with its caboose it's about to depart Northup Avenue Yard in Providence, RI, to switch downtown custome... (more)
A pair of Jersey Central RS-3s working a switch job at the big CNJ/RDG yard in Allentown, PA, attach themselves to the rear of a freight. I don't remember at this point whether they were putting i... (more)
A pair of CP ECOs back towards Bensenville yard after pulling up for headroom. This pulldown job had to pull up so far for headroom it nearly made it to River Road!
A loaded taconite train for the Iron Range has to hold back while a switch job moves some bad order set-outs around before coming into the CN Proctor yard. Another string of taconite loads waits ... (more)
The warm air and cold waters of Lake Superior meet and provide a thick blanket of fog to cover the two GP38-2's sitting at the CP Rice Point yard while they wait for a crew and job.
Seen Rock Island Passenger trains at 25MPH thru here but now they may only run 5 times a year and no one is looking for a train. Picking up storage car and then reversing back to Waterloo thats wh... (more)
An interesting switch pair work the south end of Union Pacific's North Yard in downtown Salt Lake City. UPY 585 is a GP15-1 while UP 2185 is an SD60. Both units appear to have recently taken a tri... (more)
