At 3:05am, CSX 8531 north is seen breaking the silence as it leads IG4BP through downtown Lemont, IL.

A CSX coal train has reached the top of the Hagans Switchback and proceeds toward Big Stone Gap.

Heading Back West After Helping Train 14G

Norfolk Southern’s crossing of the Allegheny Mountains west of Altoona requires a lot of helper sets. And on this line, those helpers are... (more)

Bringing Up the Rear

Norfolk Southern train 60I.22, consisting of hoppers full of synthetic gypsum (a gray, powdery mineral) passes through Cassandra, Pennsylvania, on June 26, 2017.... (more)

An SD50 and SD40-3 lead an autorack train west under the NYC searchlight signals at the Depew Amtrak Station.

Locomotives:
CSXT 8503 SD50
CSXT 4061 SD40-3

From the cab of a brand new LMS C40-8W, Conrail ALHB-6A approaches westbound at Prescott, PA with Conrail SD50 6803 leading that train.

An eastbound Conrail freight with two SD50's 6704 & 6726 and a Santa Fe GP35R 2856 at Buffalo, New York in September 1986.

Reading & Northern's blue SD50 takes a break from the Lehigh Gorge Scenic to lend a hand with a freight through Nesquehoning, PA.

The CSX Erie yard power these days consists of an SD50 and an SD40-3, which makes for an interesting pair of an older EMD and a newly rebuilt one.

Locomotives:
CSX 8568 SD50
CSX 4061... (more)

Rio Grande train 705 works its way west between Granby and Kremmling on the Moffat line in Byers Canyon. Three of the Grande’s newest locomotives, SD50’s, lead the empty coal train, which also... (more)

“Off the Showroom Floor…Almost”
This pair of Chessie System units looks to have seen some very limited revenue service, but, having just been built in August, they certainly hadn�... (more)

An SD50 leader; a bit of something other than Res on the River.

At 15,000 feet long, CSX Q254 rushes through Lawrence, Indiana with CSXT 8546 (SD50-2) in the lead.

A trio of six-axle units shove on the rear of NS 873.

A northbound auto-rack train passes milepost "JC 11", marking 11 miles from Jersey City before ducking beneath the US Route 46 overpass in Ridgefield Park.