8023 heads light back to Pokegama Yard after assisting L-567 out of the Lake Superior Basin. Engine is crossing over the frozen Midway River.

I had just arrived at Confluence and this helper unit sunk up on me. This is an unusual combination of turbo and no turbo charged units.

Veteran SD40-2s lend an assist on the rear of an eastbound stacker as they head towards Marias Pass.

Typical rural Ontario...hardly! CN 7312 runs light to Leahman Place to assist CN 89 and the next westbound train up the grade between Carpenters and Esbenshade while the "big" engines are in the s... (more)

Helper set with "Helper Link"awaiting assignment

Having passed this pond a number of times, always wind blown I was pleasantly surprised to find this reflection early one morning.

Having just worked as a head end helper on S375, 8031 heads for the helper pocket at Sand Patch.

Strange, very strange. 8019 is working as a helper on the Q375, but instead of coupling up to the train it's simply following several car lengths behind. 375 made the grade without assistance, p... (more)

The Keyser helper has one task, but it's a daunting one - shoving westbounds up the tortuous Seventeen Mile Grade.

Bringing up the rear of a lengthy 416 grain train, 2708 crosses the Mon on the day after Thanksgiving.

NS has recently begun placing A/C units on it's Westslope Helper fleet.

The N&W has been gone since 1982, but the Norfolk And Western Railway Company sign on this bridge remains in remarkably good shape, decades after it was installed.

When the grain trains were still running this was one of my favorite local spots to photograph them. No grain today, but a W&LE slab train in my neighborhood is almost as good!

Still wearing EMD paint, the 6381 cruises through Castle Shannon as the slab train descends the grade from Longview.