A Breathtaking Evening. Following a morning filled with sunshine and an afternoon that saw a torrential downpour, those of us photographing the day's BNSF riprap work train as it dumped at ... (more)
BESW rolls down grade with loads of granite
Conrail Assets' South Jersey local WPCA-51 rumbles south down the old PRSL trackage with over 30 cars in tow. The stone loads towards the back were for Winslow Junction for SRNJ to take down. It w... (more)
Nearing last light, DMIR 408 is running north along the CN Missabe with limestone loads for the Minorca taconite mine.
The entire consist of the Vulcan to Sun Valley rock train is stretched out at Acton as they continue west (railroad east) to the San Fernando Valley.
Smoke fills the sky as a quartet of EMD's breaks the morning silence in Carrollton, New York as they lug a stone extra south with a GP38-2 leading a trio of SD60's. The Buffalo & Pittsburgh's ex. ... (more)
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
Wisconsin & Southern's L464 has just pulled and spotted Michels Pit, East of Waterloo. They've retrieved six of the ancient company side dump cars. The rock will be used for various maintenance pr... (more)
Not exactly something you'd notice, but #911 is sporting a new windshield on the engineer's side today, evidently a crack developed on its previous run south. #1776 is on the rear in DPU
Passing the former NYC train station that is now a restaurant
WAMX 4177 takes the sand loads bound for Oregon across the diamond at MX.
A boring day for this crew, slowly pull ahead as the excavator near (top left) empties this GREX ballast train. Then shove back and tie up.
Re 620 # 010 (Re 6/6 # 11610) "Spreitenbach" is pulling the 1600 ton "Weiacher" (Eberhard group) gravel train 69729 from Zweidlen via Bülach-Zürich Altstetten-Lenzburg-Suhr-Z... (more)
UP's Robertson's rock train heads east for loading at Cabazon as it passes Beaumont curve just after 8am.
UP's westbound Cabazon to Gardenia rock train heads down Beaumont Hill at El Casco behind SD70ACe-T4 #3023.