Smoke fills the sky as a quartet of EMD's breaks the morning silence in Carrollton, New York as they lug a stone extra south with a GP38-2 leading a trio of SD60's. The Buffalo & Pittsburgh's ex. ... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Wisconsin & Southern's L464 has just pulled and spotted Michels Pit, East of Waterloo. They've retrieved six of the ancient company side dump cars. The rock will be used for various maintenance pr... (more)

Not exactly something you'd notice, but #911 is sporting a new windshield on the engineer's side today, evidently a crack developed on its previous run south. #1776 is on the rear in DPU

Passing the former NYC train station that is now a restaurant

WAMX 4177 takes the sand loads bound for Oregon across the diamond at MX.

A boring day for this crew, slowly pull ahead as the excavator near (top left) empties this GREX ballast train. Then shove back and tie up.

Re 620 # 010 (Re 6/6 # 11610) "Spreitenbach" is pulling the 1600 ton "Weiacher" (Eberhard group) gravel train 69729 from Zweidlen via Bülach-Zürich Altstetten-Lenzburg-Suhr-Z... (more)

UP's Robertson's rock train heads east for loading at Cabazon as it passes Beaumont curve just after 8am.

UP's westbound Cabazon to Gardenia rock train heads down Beaumont Hill at El Casco behind SD70ACe-T4 #3023.

NYAR's RS30 rolls through the curve at Beth with 7,500 horsepower tugging on 40 cars of crushed stone for Prima Asphalt in Holtsville, NY on its once-regular Saturday move.

“The Bridge on the Creek Little Pipe”
MMID’s UBST, with crushed stone loads from the Barrick Quarry, crosses the Little Pipe Creek Trestle at 09:44 on March 8, 2021.

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“Rock of Ages”
Northbound on the former PRR Frederick Secondary, Maryland Midland’s UBST crosses the 707-foot long Little Pipe Creek Trestle at 09:28, with 20 loads of crushed ston... (more)

Led by nose-to-nose SW1500’s, Conrail local WHRE-99 crosses the rain-swollen Schuylkill River in the shadow of Metropolitan Edison’s Titus Generating Plant. WHRE-99 originated in Reading, and ... (more)

Conrail local WHRE-99 crosses over to the former Reading westbound main line at Stowe, Pennsylvania. The siding in the foreground leads to the Pottstown Trap Rock quarry, which was a supplier of b... (more)