NYAR's RS30 rolls through the curve at Beth with 7,500 horsepower tugging on 40 cars of crushed stone for Prima Asphalt in Holtsville, NY on its once-regular Saturday move.

“The Bridge on the Creek Little Pipe”
MMID’s UBST, with crushed stone loads from the Barrick Quarry, crosses the Little Pipe Creek Trestle at 09:44 on March 8, 2021.

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“Rock of Ages”
Northbound on the former PRR Frederick Secondary, Maryland Midland’s UBST crosses the 707-foot long Little Pipe Creek Trestle at 09:28, with 20 loads of crushed ston... (more)

Led by nose-to-nose SW1500’s, Conrail local WHRE-99 crosses the rain-swollen Schuylkill River in the shadow of Metropolitan Edison’s Titus Generating Plant. WHRE-99 originated in Reading, and ... (more)

Conrail local WHRE-99 crosses over to the former Reading westbound main line at Stowe, Pennsylvania. The siding in the foreground leads to the Pottstown Trap Rock quarry, which was a supplier of b... (more)

Georgia Northeastern Railroad GP20 #316 shoves three loaded marble hoppers towards the switchbacks on the Marble Hill Branch which was built by the Georgia Marble Company in the late 1800's.

Before the days of PSR on CSX, one could see loads of aggregate such as sand moving on entire unit trains. The rolling stock was railroad owned and some cars even retained fallen flag paint schem... (more)

After running up to the quarry at Great Valley to pickup loaded stone cars, a quartet of EMD's lead a Buffalo & Pittsburgh stone extra southbound past the BR&P Station in Salamanca, New York.

A pair of Dash 9's sit idle at the quarry waiting for another load of rock.

UP 5490 leads the westbound Cabazon rock train thru El Casco, as the massive "Apple Fire" burns out of control in the foothills above Beaumont.

Branford Steam Railroad SW1001 7357 leads a train of loaded stone cars south at Twin Lakes Road in North Branford, heading for the dock at Juniper Point. This engine rarely left the quarry in rece... (more)

This little RR operation was amazing to watch since there's nothing quite like it around! The SW9 shoves the train, caboose first, up to the quarry, loads the hoppers, and then the locomotive lea... (more)

A trio of Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2's make their way across Sheldon Road over NS trackage in Berea, Ohio with a long stone train in tow. This is the first run for a new customer, Shelly Material... (more)

Union Pacific's RWCWCG is regarded as the "dirt train" and runs from the Robinson Ready Mix plant in Cabazon, California to Los Angeles, California. Running daily this train consists of modified c... (more)