A long stake out, over parts of three nights, finally produces this photo of an eastbound climbing the west slope of the Alleghany Grade in a 135mm view at 01:49.
Five minutes after the head end has passed, a pair of AC4400's emerge noisily from the curved tunnel at a walk, with the helper engineer lighting up the portal for us, at 02:21! What a show this ... (more)
Making for a very dramatic show at night, an SD70MAC leads slowly out of Pool Point Tunnel onto the massive bridge here on the GE dominated ex-Clinchfield trackage.
Delaware and Hudson royalty get together for a moment as freshly repainted ex-D&H 7312 pulling the deadheading Toys For Tots train, passes the immaculate Westport Station at 20:37.
You hope to see headlights through the trees, as the waterfall drowns out the locomotive here, until it's broadside, passing high overhead in full dynamics holding back coal loads in this 20mm vie... (more)