Q263 heads out of Churchville with a dirty Conrail era SD70MAC on the point.

Q117 kicks up some freshly fallen snow as it rockets into Churchville.

Running quite late, Q115 rolls west up the South Byron Hill, kicking up snow.

With the sun not even over the hills yet, 310 rolls over the Trestle at Letchworth as seen from the east side of the bridge. In the winter due to sun angle, this side of the bridge can only be sho... (more)

LAL 420, a former LIRR C420, runs in original position (comtemporary LHF) with two more centurys behind leads the Northbound at track speed into Henrietta with a short train for CSX.

In the thick of a storm that pounded most of Western New York and had Buffalo in chaos, with trains running late, some not running at all, Q364 heads east to Selkirk.

NS 13T, with a nice EMD lashup is still not up to speed from the Portageville Viaduct as it knocks down the eastbound signal at CP ROSS as it takes the siding for a meet with Ayer-Chicago hotshot ... (more)

Rolling through the Canisteo River Valley much later than the railroad's customer's might have preferred is 23K, the new New England/Chicago Intermodal Train, seen ducking under the Carson Bridge.... (more)

Now seen highballing without any more stops before the American Rock Salt mine in Mount Morris, the GW-1 rolls into Leicester with a nice pure orange lashup.

Next up on our chase was Route 63, where the crew stopped down at the shops short to the north of the bridge, where they took 3103 out of the shop, and placed it on the front of the train, and t... (more)

GW-1 crests the hogbacks rolling through the Livingston County farmlands as it's lead GP9 catches a hint of sun as the train heads south towards the American Rock Salt mine in Mount Morris where i... (more)

Now seen rolling through the farmlands in Livingston County, the GW-1 passes some derelict storage bins with a pure orange and black lashup, with a nice chop-nose GP9 leading!

With foliage nearing peak, and a quick glint of sun, Q279 negotiates one of the many "Churchville Curves" with two C40-8 variants.

On a scorching hot day, I set out in search of ICE power on K639, which has been a constant on ethanol trains on CSX to and from the CP lately. Today, an unusual pure lashup of 5 SD40 variants chu... (more)

Two SD40-2s begin their assault against the .98% South Byron hill with a long train of empty autoracks in the last rays of sun as the shadows long. The train would have a speed restriction at MP 3... (more)