A January afternoon finds an Erie Lackawanna GP7 on the roundhouse lead at Bangor, Pennsylvania. Built in 1952 as Erie 1404, the EMD road switcher has about five years of service left.
WICT 616 has picked up a string of coal cars and is about to depart Waukesha, WI for the slow trip to Madison on a nice Winter day in January of 1989. This section of ex-MILW track along Hwy 164 (... (more)
585's crew has run to Croghan and back with 810. Now they will couple up to the B23-7, fetch their train out of the siding along the main, then head for Walterboro.
Back in the 1970s SCL still operated a branch from the ex-ACL main at John's Island to Croghan, a tiny yard with a couple customers directly across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston. It w... (more)