Late Afternoon came as the snow kept falling while the B&E RJED sits ready to roll with former CSX 7727 on point with it's rather unpleasant light blue nose from the PanAm days.

MEC SD40-2 3403 which is the lead locomotive for RJ-1 sits next to the CSX geometry train in Rotterdam Junction. RJ-1 would head down to the Scotia Industrial Park, where they would set out two un... (more)

With CSX's recent acquisition of Pan Am Railways, the geometry train was sent on a months long journey to test a majority of former PAR trackage. Here the train takes a rest for the weekend at the... (more)

Canadian Nationals BC Rail tribute locomotive leads CSX Q212 onto the Selkirk Subdivision as it makes its way towards a final destination of New Jersey.

Pan Am Railways 7561 sits in Rotterdam Junction with a fresh paint job waiting for a crew to take the train to East Deerfield, Massachusetts.

In 2018 CSXT Q090/Q091 were still a common site in the area with its usual Union Pacific power pulling fresh food & produce from Oregon to Rotterdam at the RailEx facility. The "Salad Shooter... (more)

Pan Am Railways 3402 sits tied down in the yard with a BNSF GEVO that came off of G102.

Coming to a dealer near you! UP 9069 leads a train full of Teslas fresh from California on a cloudless March day. Since late last year a handful of these trains have been traversing CSX on their w... (more)

An ex-NYC U-boat and ex-PRR Alco C630 power a freight on the ex-NYC water level route. While the diesels are new, second generation machines the ice reefers on the head pin are from another era.

Always nice to catch a pumpkin on Halloween, even if the crew was aggravated averaging a 20mph train speed from beyond Utica to Selkirk cause of added freight ontop of an already loaded oil train ... (more)

RJ-1 departs Rotterdam Junction on a beautiful fall Saturday.

The RJ-1 Saturday crew pulls up the CSXT interchange beside parked power on a warm October day at Rotterdam Yard. The MEC 3405 has been a frequent visitor to the west end.

A few years ago, Dash 8 widecabs were quite common on CSX. Now they are very hard to find along with Dash 9’s. Here back in 2018 we see a unit autorack train pulling loaded racks across the Moha... (more)

Sunday morning lineup at Pan Am's Rotterdam Junction yard consists of former CSX GE Dash 8s, awaiting their next assignments.

End of an era. After serving the Boston & Maine and it's successors since 1957, the GP9 era on the B&M is coming to an end. Parked at the extreme western end of the former Boston & Maine, the 2 Pa... (more)