Delivering the Bone

A friend and I heard Conrail local WJAL-18 on the scanner and decided to follow it on an unusual Saturday run. WJAL-18 was a turn from Allentown, Pennsylvania, ... (more)

Norfolk Southern 179 soars across the trestle in Conneaut, Ohio that carries the Lake Erie District over Conneaut Creek and the CN Bessemer Sub. In the lead is NS 4000, painted in a blue mane sche... (more)

Classic B23-7`s power a 20 car train near Westel Tn

In a view highlighting the through truss center span over the Hudson River shipping channel, CSX EB Q424 has just left Selkirk Yard for Springfield, MA as it passes WB empty autorack train Q205 wh... (more)

Wheeling train 618 crosses Mingo Creek trestle and under I43 as it heads east towards Connellsville, PA.

Completed in 1835, the Thomas Viaduct is the world’s oldest multiple-arch stone railroad bridge. Situated over the Patapsco River near Relay, Maryland, the structure was built by the Baltimore &... (more)

CSX EB Q424 has just left Selkirk Yard for Springfield, MA as it passes WB Q115 with intermodal and mixed freight. The trains are meeting on the 5,255 ft Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge. The bridg... (more)

X347's train soars across the Cutarm trestle just east of Code on CN's Rivers Sub.

On a sunny mid September day, WLE sports a trio of mismatched power with the leader being one of the ex FURX SD40-2s. The train began it's journey in Rook Yard, near Pittsburgh and will terminate ... (more)

IC C44-9W 2708 and CN SD70M-2 8900 lead train M318 across the Battle River at Fabyan, AB.

M304's train crosses the impressive trestle just west of Fabyan, AB.

An westbound grain train navigates the Two Medicine River trestle with the crew looking more like pilots than engineers. It’s led by quite an unruly set of power with the GE on the point given a... (more)

Canadian National SD70M-2 8800 brings up the rear of a loaded ore train as it crosses Kimbles Viaduct on the Bessemer Sub in Mercer, Pennsylvania. This was the first ore train to operate with a 2 ... (more)

On the weekend of September 24-5, 1983, two excursions were run on the B&O out of Baltimore. The grapevine said that the power was to be the former Clinchfield F-units, freshly painted in Seaboard... (more)