My most most frequently sighted - and least favorite - locomotive when I started fanning in the early 1970s in east Alabama was the Southern GP38 (or GP38-2). Square, black, run-of-the-mill blah.... (more)

First portion of the movement of two large GE turbines (Greenville-Laurens, SC via the Carolina Piedmont Railroad) comes to an end as the train pulls into Laurens. CSX would take the load to Cayce... (more)

Three Carolina Piedmont GP38's pull a couple GE gas turbines across Interstate 385 just outside of Greenville, SC. The turbines are manufactured at the GE facility in Greenville and sent overseas.... (more)

A trio of CPDR GP38's power two large GE gas turbines southward out of Fountain Inn towards Owings, SC on their way to Laurens. The loads will eventually wind up in Charleston and be exported from... (more)

Approaching downtown Gray Court, we see the CPDR GE high and wide specialty movement passing an old Atlantic Coast Line RR style whistle post with all three of CPDR's GP38's powering the train.

Never-to-be-repeated street running on the old Western Maryland Railway through Chambersburg. Trains plied this route from 1881 to November 2, 2000. The tracks are gone today, but the right-of-w... (more)

Small Town, Big Loads! In the tiny farming based town of Owings, SC, a CPDR GE high and wide passes by an old barn at the Better Service Milling Company in town.

As seen from just outside of Fountain Inn, SC, a high and wide move on the Carolina Piedmont navigates the hills and grades of an old ribbon of jointed rail in the Carolina upcountry.

Carolina Piedmont locomotives run light to the GE plant in Greenville, SC with former Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern GP38 3881 leading to pick up a train of high and wide loads and take them south t... (more)

San Manuel Morning

After two days of railfanning the Copper Basin we headed down to San Manuel on good authority that the SMARRCO would be running a train up to the interchange. ... (more)

WSOR 3802 puts its train back together at Iron Ridge after making a run up to Mayville. Soon, the train will depart for Slinger where it will exchange cars with the local from Milwaukee.

Michigan Shore's M-W-F train to the CSX at Holland is nearing the end of home rails as it passes a sign for Render's Berry Farm along US 31. In a few miles the train will use CSX rails for the rem... (more)

NECR 610 passes through Willimantic Yard on a frigid 7 below zero morning with one of the few remaining Blue & Golds leading.

2057 rolls south along US 31 with a short train for CSX.

Southern's long-distance local bumps across the Western with the usual assortment of log flats. In the background is a boxcar still in CofG colors, and the hood of a Southern diesel, one of two t... (more)