Penn Central visits the CSX Selkirk locomotive service area after bringing in a loaded oil train as trailing unit. Door open? Well it is Penn Central.

For the first time in over 30 years, a Penn Central engine (NS 1073) rolls by the house that Penn Central built. In 1968 the then new Penn Central spent $30 million modernizing and expanding the A... (more)

The Nickel Plate heritage has completed another EB oil train run over CSX as it delivers a K010 oil train to the Buckeye Terminal at the Port of Albany. Operating under a Selkirk Yard symbol, the ... (more)

You can set your watch by it---but only on Thursday. The hot Thursday only UPS TOFC train rolls over the Mohawk River at 6:10pm on its way from Chicago to NJ. This is one of the few trains still f... (more)

Pure warbonnet with 188 cars. Looking to get the NKP heritage on a K010 oil train this ended up as the consolation prize when the oil train barely made it past Syracuse in daylight. BNSF 729 and 7... (more)

PV Special. The WB Lake Shore Limited has been combined (449 from Boston is the first 5 cars and 49 from NYP is the rest of the train) and is just waiting for its departure time to leave. In the b... (more)

Searchlights and lightning stripes. The searchlights, even these modern ones, are on borrowed time. Hopefully the same is not true for CP's "heritage" unit D&H 7312 seen hauling 9 flatcars of trac... (more)

CP's "heritage" unit D&H 7312 rolls under Brooker Hollow Rd after cresting Richmondville Summit (in the distance) where it met a NB loaded coal train on the siding that ends at CPF-528 visible jus... (more)

CP's "heritage" unit D&H 7312 rolls SB over the Harpursville trestle in late afternoon sun with 9 flatcars of track equipment moving from Colonie, NY to Binghamton, NY.

With code line, a lightning stripe and a D&H style flanger flag creating a late 70's look, CP's "heritage" unit D&H 7312 rolls SB thru the double S curves with 9 flatcars of track equipment moving... (more)

CP's "heritage" unit D&H 7312 rolls SB down the controlled siding between CPF-499 and CPF-503 with 9 flatcars of track equipment moving from Colonie, NY to Binghamton, NY.

CP's "heritage" unit D&H 7312 rolls SB thru the Village of Bainbridge with 9 flatcars of track equipment moving from Colonie, NY to Binghamton, NY

A former Conrail SD70 leads an empty Bow coal train across the Hoosic River. NS 2579 was assembled at Conrail's Juniata Locomotive Shop from kits supplied by EMD as CR 2579, among the last engines... (more)

A former Conrail SD70 leads an empty Bow coal train on a late afternoon run down the former D&H. Even these not so classic modern searchlights are on borrowed time. NS 2579 was assembled at Conrai... (more)

The power off an inbound Pan Am Southern East Deerfield to Rotterdam Jct train moves into the clear so CSX can back down and pick up the inbound CSX interchange located behind me. Rotterdam Jct is... (more)