Mass Coastal Railroad operates the energy train five days a week. The empty train travels from Rochester onto Cape Cod where it picks up trash from a facility in Yarmouth. The loaded train returns... (more)

Mass Coastal 2007 (ex-ATSF GP9u) passes some colorful flowering trees in East Sandwich, MA on it's way from Rochester to Yarmouth. 2007 is hauling the Energy Train, which takes refuse from Cape Co... (more)

For the portion of the Conrail Lehigh Line that New Jersey Transit's Raritan Valley Line operates on, freights are more commonly seen occupying on Track #2 for dispatching purposes. Nonetheless, w... (more)

Seattle's Garbage Hauler heads eastbound along the Columbia River to the landfill in Eastern Washington. The odiferous passing of the train is hard to ignore.

Mass Coastal 2009 (ex-IC GP28) heads north with 2 loads from Cavossa Disposal Corp. in North Falmouth. The train passes through Monk's Park on it's way to Middleboro to interchange with CSX.

The leader of NS 63V here was rebuilt from a former UP SD90MAC by Norfolk Southern in 2017 (ex-UP 3500/ex-UP 8028). After 2+ years of service for Norfolk Southern, the unit was stored in mid-2020 ... (more)

Eastbound trash train on Conrail's Lehigh Line with the Norfolk Southern Heritage Unit in the lead. The trailing unit is NS 3621 (ET44AC).

Conrail PN-13 sets up its trailing unit to around their train of empty trash cars on the Waldo Runaround in Jersey City. As a part of the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Jersey City Branch, it para... (more)

Mass Coastal 2008 leads a short train of municipal waste hoppers across Cohasset Narrows in Wareham, MA.

NS V60 trash train heads west by the doomed East End shops in Roanoke with a single SD40-2 on point.

Norfolk Southern's "Pennsylvania" heritage unit is proudly hauling garbage out of New Jersey. The second unit is NS 1044 (SD70ACe).

Railfanning on the Cape especially in the winter is a generally solitary enterprise, so doing my part with social distancing. Mass Coastal GP9RM 2008 leads a short consist of 4 loaded municipal wa... (more)

CSX train Q368 (Chicago, IL - Selkirk, NY) eases its way east down the Rochester Siding in Goodman Street yard as it passes local train B790 on track 4 returning from Waste Management in Perinton.... (more)

Mass Coastal 2009 (ex-IC GP28) passes the Cummaquid Golf Course in Yarmouth, MA with the empty southbound Energy Train.

"Empty Dumpsters"