Getting derail in the yard

The throaty sound of 4 geeps splits the silence of the forest, as PNWR's Toledo Hauler approaches the small town of Summit, in the Coast Range mountains.

Westbound on the B&O Akron Mainline Sub.

Hamlet-NOLA run-through train 215 is a big one on this day, with 124 cars behind five SCL GP40s and two West Point Route GP7s.

Hamlet-NOLA run-through train 215 - operating as Extra SCL 1610 on this day - rolls across 10th Street. Construction on an overpass has started, and in a few months this at-grade crossing will be... (more)

CNW GP40 5500 leads train PRGBA across the Manitowoc River in Manitowoc, WI in August of 1988. The train is on CNW's Shoreline, which is a bike trail today a few miles north of here. The bridge is... (more)

Two GP40s and two first generation geeps are cresting the hill just east/north of Opelika. From this point forward they will mostly be dropping as they head for the Chattahoochee River at West Po... (more)

Rochester and Southern train BY-1 is working the end of the line in downtown Rochester, NY as it grabs an empty centerbeam from Morse lumber. Although there were two centerbeams to be picked up, t... (more)

Big Sixty Trestle The Toledo Hauler lifts a heavy eastbound cut of paper up the west slope of the Coast Range, across the Big Sixty Trestle. The reason for the name Big Sixty seems to ha... (more)

GP40s in the garbs of Georgia Southwestern and Indiana Southern work the mill in Dawson. Both are far from their origins, as 4028 started life on N&W, and 4051 was originally part of B&O's fleet.

The sole daily southbound freight from St Louis is almost to the Kansas state line. Today's power includes a pair of ex-Conrail (PC) GP40s, an ex-Kennecott Copper GP39-2, and a dit repowered Bald... (more)

Headed for Mobile, a freight roars beneath Southern Boulevard at track speed.

The Royal Gorge Railroad's GP40 muscles the passenger train towards the spectacular canyons as it heads west.

L&N and FL geeps pull a string Frisco covered hoppers.

After dropping off a Wisconsin Central GP at American Motive Power in Dansville, NY, BL-1 takes a recently rebuilt CN SD75I out of the plant as it takes the north leg of the wye to get back onto R... (more)