Caboose in 2024 LBR 551980, an ex-BN caboose brings up the rear on an 054 high-wide train carrying telephone poles and an empty Schnabel car. This train was restricted to 25MPH the whole w... (more)

Cresson Steel NS 8717 is one of five former-NS C40-8s stored in Cresson, PA. Though they've been parked at a scrap metal facility for the better part of a decade, they're still standing.

April Showers NS 22X rolls east down the hill into a severe thunderstorm. If you look closely, you can see NS 8025, the Monongahela heritage unit third out.

Family Portrait Vintage stored locomotives baking in the early-April sun in Cumberland. Cumberland's dead line is one of the few, if not the only place, where one can see all 3 CSX paint s... (more)

Do What You Love The same friendly conductor from my last photo pulls his train into Ridgeley Yard to end the day. Before the next run, trailing Dash 8 #561 will need some air compressor r... (more)

Do What You Love The conductor on the Western Maryland Scenic's Allegheny Winter Express is happy to see us as he makes his way through Woodcock Hollow.

Old Horse WMSR 561, a recently required ex-Norfolk Southern B32-8 ends its uphill trip to Frostburg. According to one of the conductors, the 561's air compressor broke during this trip, le... (more)

Southerners Headed Home NS 8099 and 1069 lead a Georgia-bound Office Car Special through some not-so-ideal weather. In a few days, they'll arrive in Augusta, GA, where Norfolk Southern exe... (more)

Bluebirds and Dandelions NS 3982, a former CIT Rail Leasing AC44, awaits repairs alongside UP 6052, an AC44 that NS wrecked in 2023.

John Deeres NS 8099 and 1069, the Southern and Virginian heritage units, are staged outside the Juniata misc. shop where the Office Car Train is stored. Tomorrow morning, they'll deadhead ... (more)

Whole Lotta Blue PSU 2020, Penn State's donated SD60I sits in its new resting place outside the Railroaders Museum roundhouse. Looming overhead is a preserved PRR position light tower dona... (more)

Rio Grande in Massachusetts PNLX 2107, a leased MP20GP-3, gets the wire train moving north at West Medford. This rebuilt GP38-2, along with a widecab GP40, were leased by the MBTA to move ... (more)

The End Bay Colony 1701 has remained parked in the woods in Medfield for the better part of a decade, in a state of limbo between retirement and active use. Though this line isn't official... (more)

Power Move with Cars Amtrak 30 rolls out of Cumberland with more engines than cars. Up front is a regular P42, then a seldom-seen Dash 8, and then 4 brand new ALC-42 Chargers being deliver... (more)

Rainbow Era Throughout 2023, and now 2024, Norfolk Southern has experienced systemwide power shortages thanks to their 2019 locomotive purge. At the end of the year, after leasing a small ... (more)