Fellow railfan and RP contributor Austin MacDougall grabs his shots of westbound stack train 211, led by a UP GEVO, meeting an eastbound empty hopper train, with a pair of heritage units, on the o... (more)

A pair of western visitors do the honors of piloting Birmingham, AL bound manifest 15T west through Grantham just before sunset.

A rather late running 12R prepares to cross the Yellow Breeches Creek between Boiling Springs and Brandtsville on the NS Lurgan Branch. Leased CREX 1339 leads a faded ex-ATSF warbonnet and, of cou... (more)

One of several export GEs destined for Mozambique is in consist on westbound manifest 11R passing through Boiling Springs on the NS Lurgan Branch.

Ethanol empties, led by an SD70M, return west for another load, seen passing through the small village of Lyons, just east of Reading, PA, on a beautiful summer evening.

A trio of rebuilt CP SD60s lead an empty ethanol train north across the causeway at the north end of Iona Island on a beautiful morning. This train surprised us, for if we had known it was coming,... (more)

To the top of the mountain we went, and just in time too. The dispatcher had a fleet of southbounds to run, but with northbound Q434 in emergency just to the south, only two were able to run. Firs... (more)

Ethanol loads snake their way through CP 43 on the River Sub in route to unloading in New Jersey.

Number 51, the westbound Cardinal, passes beneath a cantilever C&O era signal bridge lurking in the shadows as its heads towards Thurmond, Huntington and ultimately, Chicago.

A CN Dash-9, with IC sub-lettering, leads three NS units toward Bellevue with a long manifest.

A nice pair of YN2 GEs lead a stack train eastbound into some sweet morning sunlight at the New London Reservoir.

After waiting for two westbounds to run around it and for two Bellevue bound NS manifests to clear, Q113 starts from a stop approaching route 4 in Siam, OH, the location of the crossing of CSX's W... (more)

Early morning at the New London reservoir finds an eastbound oil train with a trio of UP units, led by a rather rare AC6000.

With the sun just minutes away from setting, we find K495 tied down at the west end of Willard Yard with a trio of CP units, the leader being a newly rebuilt ECO SD40-2.

A brand new BNSF GEVO leads our last train of the day, stack train Q163, westbound through a curve outside Defiance, OH on the CSX Garrett Sub just after 8PM on what was the best day of our week l... (more)