Having briefly served the KBEC, the first African American-owned railroad in the country, as its sole power, S3 6 has been returned to the Annie with a nonfunctional prime mover.
GEVO 7611 is still looking good, some six months after I last photographed her in the snow.
Two modes of commuting from Seattle to Everett are visible here: remnants of last century's sailing schooners and today's Sounder consist.
Clean new GEVO 7611 pauses on its westbound descent from the Cascade Tunnel. Photo obtained at the cost of snow up to the knees.
The coal loads may eventually warm someone, but at this point the temperature was around five below, with a wind chill approaching twenty below!
The Twilight Limited embarks another substantial load of fares beneath the watchful gaze of the University of Michigan Medical Center. Genesis 31 looks like it could use a little attention, too.
Ex-UP and ex-BN units, now both CEFX, bring a southbound CSXT freight into Walbridge yard.
Carrying on Union Pacific's tradition of big power across the plains, two H-engined SD90MACs move the merchandise west of Grand Island.
With sand and Run 8, the Boeing Local puts its might into shoving the Boeing cars up the twisting 5 percent ascent to the assembly plant, the world's largest building, at the top of the hill. Not... (more)
Not a speck of dust on these babies yet, wheeling a CSX freight toward home rails for the first time.
All flags and flares ... including an SD70ACe in the third slot.
Three units back to their train while an eastbound unit soda ash train passes in the early morning light.
The quiet end of Cascade Service train 510 passes the former Everett station, obviously no longer of use to passengers and growing over with ivy.
Is this like six months for the Mariners and six months for the Seahawks? Or we could just be getting plain ST.
Mechanized or not, trackwork still requires muscle!