A trio of SD40-2's lead a Canadian Pacific Herzog ballast train through Ticonderoga, NY. The emergency vehicles are there for a motor vehicle accident that happened just before the train arrived.

Three SD40-2's power a CP ballast train through the Adirondack mountains at Westport, NY

A trio of Canadian Canadian Pacific SD40-2's each in a different paint scheme power a Herzog ballast train though Essex, NY.

A trio of Canadian Canadian Pacific SD40-2's each in a different paint scheme power a Herzog ballast train along the shore of Lake Champlain at Port Henry, NY.

W&LE SD40-2 4003 reverses a ballast train into Brewster yard.

GG1 4875 hums past the historic station at Newark, DE, with a southbound Amtrak ballast train. This elegant brick station was built in 1877 by the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad, a ... (more)

Canadian Pacific Herzog Ballast Train is passing through Port Kent along Lake Champlain with SD40-2 6018 and SD30ECO 5035. The train has finished working between Whitehall and Westport and is now ... (more)

Unfortunately the weather did not play along for this rare occasion when two of PRASA's brand new Class 18E main line passenger haulers, 18-431 & 18-430, visited Kelso on the KwaZulu Natal South C... (more)

CN 6020 holds the point on a Herzog unit ballast train tied down in the siding in the former DW&P yard at Virginia, MN

The last GTW painted SD40-2 on the CN roster sits tied down at Munger siding with a ballast train.

CP SD40-2 6042 leads a ballast train through the Dells and over the Wisconsin River.

Unfortunately the weather did not play along for this rare occasion when two of PRASA's brand new Class 18E main line passenger haulers, 18-431 & 18-430, visited Kelso on the KwaZulu Natal South C... (more)

A ballast train roars along the BNSF Lakes Sub. through Cloquet, MN on a nice late summer evening.

It's not often that an all but abandoned branchline gets a second chance. Rio Grande's Pleasant Valley Branch in Utah was abandoned in the early 1960's and completely rebuilt in 1975 to serve a ne... (more)