After a long lull, the sounds of heavy freight have begun to fill the Mohawk Valley as evening descends on Fonda NY. The first westbound to thunder into town is this colorful all EMD powered empt... (more)

Spring is finally starting to take hold across the region as Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern engine 6086 leads an empty K-worm west on the controlled siding while it waits for Amtrak 283 to pass. Once... (more)

The run through power in upstate New York has been pretty interesting lately. The K010 rolls past the Q380 which is holding on the siding. Pretty hard to believe these rails belong to CSX Transpor... (more)

"Ice Cold Express." The Produce Express charges west on yet another bitterly cold and windy afternoon. Will spring ever come?

The Q380 sits in the hole waiting for a couple of high priority eastbound trains to over take it. BNSF 9922 is on point of this impressive display of power. Considering we are already a week into ... (more)

The daily Q393 grinds on west on very cold and windy evening. It sure does not feel like spring around here yet!

Engines like CN 2446 are moderately rare to have in our area, CN's are becoming rare to see in general. They come around about three to four times a year but I haven't seen one leading since early... (more)

CSX engine 7385 leads the daily Q393 west under the new cantilever at auto 186. This is an ex-Conrail engine and has retained it class lights.

An ex-Western Maryland engine slows down with it's welded rail train as it prepares to tie dow for the night by the former Center Street grade crossing in Fonda, NY. As a note, from what I can fin... (more)

A pair of "Dark Future" CSX engines foreshadow the weather to come as they roll west on what seemed like a very late Q263. With passing of this train the last of the days sun would be promptly wis... (more)

This photo is my first one on this site. On a great weekend railfanning using my new DSLR, CSXT Q377 passes through Fonda with nice UP's on the head followed by a CSX C40-8W and a CSX AC44CW. Than... (more)

The much anticipated K635 rolls west under the new cantilever at auto 186 in Fonda, NY. The old NYC era bridge fell sometime this past Sunday as an ongoing signal replacement project continues. T... (more)

A very clean CSXT engine 368 leads a mixed frieght west on what turned out to be a pretty decent day. One has to wonder how long it with be until the YN2's disappear. One thing is for sure, I wo... (more)

A pair of standard cab EMD's lead the L279 west through the freshly fallen snow from winter storm Nemo. The snowfall in this area was no where near what was predicted while out neighbors to the e... (more)

The Q385 with a unique lashup as it rolls west with it's manifest train on a beautiful afternoon. It is rather unusual, at least in my experience, to see BNSF paired with Norfolk Southern.