Gunga Din, bring water! Ex Conrail SD60I is on point but is not powering CSX unit trash Q703 westbound on the Trenton Line due to being out of water according to crew.
2 SD60I units lead 129 loads of coal up the Manor Branch on one of the last remaining days of Winter. The white face of the ES40DC helpers can be seen on the rear if you look closely.
The shot I was waiting for the whole weekend finally came late in the day on Sunday: Conrail locomotives crawling up track one at Lilly with a long train in tow!!!
With the usual winter snow fall, note how tracks 0 and 2 are completely covered and hint of their uselessness this day in age. Years ago, eastbound trains would stop at AR on tracks 0, 1 and 2 to ... (more)
At CP AR, the 1% grade of the West Slope ends and levels out before hitting the steep descending grade of the Slide. A trio of Ex-CRQ SD60I's are still laying on the throttle with a South Fork to ... (more)
A westbound PPLX hopper train treats us with a trio of blue SD60Is gliding down track three past the classic position light signals at Portage, Pa.
Westbound Q139 passes the Hansrote CPLs.
PPLX train N06 with 3 blue 60I's crawl down the Mon Line coming out of Fredericktown.
Still in its original paint ex.Conrail SD60I 5636 leads NS 111 east across the trestle at Shelbyville Ky.
Conrail Quality scheme SD60I leads NS ethanol train 69Q westbound through CP Center in "the war zone" - all's calm for the moment.
#939 with an ExCon on the point excellerates south on the Controlled siding past SMS's NE-1 with Chris and Greg on board waiting patiently to head back to the park with two for McGrand on a very s... (more)
Q235 has just recently met a northbound intermodal train at Smyrna, and will call a "medium clear" at Gilstrap.
Q235 eases south towards Smyrna on the #2 track where they will meet a northbound stack train before heading down to Pine Street.
Eastbound between Birmingham and Columbus on the old Central of Georgia.