Cartier M636 #49 south bound log train headed back to Port Cartier is at mp23 QUE. 9/18/2001 Cartier #49 is ex-CN 2321 which was built 7/1/1971

"Snow in the Pocono"

Snow starts to fall as PT-98 heads East under the signal bridge in Elmhurst behind a set of ALCO/MLW six axle Alcos.

A matched multi-mark set of big Canadian Pacific Railway MLWs - M636 4719 and M630 4571 - roll into East Binghamton, New York, with a short 554 intermodal train that originated in Montreal. Scann... (more)

4723's state is pretty much in line with the fading autumn; it's indeed painful to look at...

"Corporate Scheme"

On a picturesque fall day the Delaware Lackawanna hosted an excursion for the ASLRRA (American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association) on the Pocono Mai... (more)

MCRR transfer job at UP yard St Paul

Highballing north through Tobyhanna behind five Alcos

An ex Belt Railway of Chicago geep watches DL M636 #3643 switch the grain mill at Pocono.

Solitude at night as six motor Montreal Locomotive Works products slumber away the evening at the Western New York & Pennsylvania shop facility.

A very rare set of five ALCO's in matching GVT paint leads a 47 car grain train in the Poconos as they smoke it upgrade at Tobyhanna PA

A group of Alco units by the engine house.

September 12, 2001 -- I was in Canada and the day before terrorists struck the U.S. There were almost no trains that ran on the Cartier on 9/11 and I spent most of the day in remote Quebec trying ... (more)

The Driftwood Turn is nearing Driftwood with 39 cars and making some nice Alco smoke.

The Driftwood Turn is headed southbound near Keating Summit. The 39 cars (mostly empties) was nothing to the big Alco engines..they were just out enjoying a easy run on a nice summer day.