On my way to USAF Survival School we took a few days for some railfanning. The railfanning was fun, the school, well, not so much. This unit is actually BCR but bears the old paint scheme.

Class and style, two things mostly lost in America, still exist at firms proud of their accomplishments. Two stuffEd and mounted units and two old L&N cabeese in a park like setting make a helluv... (more)

Looking good after many years and enjoying a distinguished retirement.

Call it the little engine that got no respect. Former NPBL unit was acquired by NS along with sister 1231 around 1988 but neither appear on most NS rosters. Leased to Louisville, New Albany & C... (more)

Gloriously unrebuilt and fully equipped with that remarkable “ashcan” light this beauty idles in the sun. There must be a story behind that paint job.

Back when the mills and foundries and factories still created a haze this cab hop is roaring north. I only got one shot. Must have been the end of a roll. Remember those?

Transferred from the C&O to what was already almost a “paper railroad”. This unit sits among probably fifty units shut down for the holidays. I was there for only the second time last year. Sad.

Nothing on the slide. From my collection. Cumberland, MD maybe?

My MP pal, who undertook to offer a welcome to a young Air Force guy by showing me around the oddball (on MP) GE behind him. In the few weeks I was there I got a couple of cab rides around the te... (more)

They had some stick-on lettering problems.

Across town the Rock Island was dying.

Interim scheme

There was a little break in the clouds for once on this trip. After a week I decided that the only way to railfan New England is to live there and have no other commitments other than waiting fo... (more)

On a short layover I got some time to head back to the Flats for a visit to favorite old ramshackle operation. And sure enough a grizzled old veteran was idling aware adorned with battle scars, b... (more)

Idling for a long time, oil builds up in cylinders etc., then with a mighty roar a trio of GEs head out on a mine run. Oh, the humanity. God, I STILL love the smell of diesel smoke in the mornin... (more)