The Salamanca-Machias-West Valley local switches at Ashford Junction to get the empty hoppers right to go to Machias. I dropped the SIRI and headed this way just in time to beat the train to this... (more)
Rails of two tales! Stamped with their production info, two side by side rails on the mainline where rolled and produce by two different companies and two different years. The 141 LB rail signif... (more)
My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)
The 8952 had led M396 out of Champagne but after some minor mechanical issues had to be put in trail in Battle Creek. After spinning the power on the Wye, the crew ties back onto the train left o... (more)