A warm Sunday morning in the central valley finds an SJVRR freight sporting a GP38 in old RailAmerica colors tied down in Goshen a couple of miles east of the UP mainline.

NECR Train 610 getting ready to switch out Lounsbury Lumber in South Windham.

NECR Train 610 arriving in Franklin.

FMI job makes a second run up the hill to Morenci after interchanging with the AZER.

FMI job climbs the steep 5% grade out of the interchange yard at Clifton with a good 30 cars for the top of the hill.

FMI job ties onto the rear of the inbound AZER train and will shortly be screaming up the 5% grade to the FMI yard at the top of the hill.

Sparkill Wye
Power for Conrail NB-51 runs around the Sparkill Wye with their N8B caboose in tow. The track immediately behind the GP38 was the single Sparkill Yard track. The two track... (more)

Utah Railway GP38 No. 2000 and GP38-3 No. 2001 depart Salt Lake City with a nine car RUT312 local on April 1, 2015. UTAH 2000 happens to be the last GP38 model on the Utah Railway roster in tradit... (more)

A Bluebonnet GP38 takes headroom at Corwith Yard's east end.

As UP's Sheboygan local rests for the night, yesterdays coal train, led by an unusually new EMD SD70AH idle away before beginning the trip back to Wyoming tomorrow.

I spent one afternoon on the south end of the Clinchfield, and managed to catch two road trains. Along with a northbound from Bostic, NC, there was this northbound that originated in Spartanburg, ... (more)