A sucker hole in the clouds from a recent rain shower comes at the right time as CSX M204 heads north towards Seymour before turning east for Cincinnati. The Chessie heritage unit brings up the ba... (more)

Intermodal switchers at Alliance yard.

Rare as hen's teeth, even in 1982, this unit is a little gem, somebody's bet and historical, having been a switcher at the builder's plant many years ago. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collecion. ... (more)

CSX's Operation Lifesaver SD70MACe idles in front of the Waycross depot before later departing as the leader for M692-02 bound for Russel, KY

The paint looks prettier but these replaced my beloved FM H-12-44s. I only had two months left there myself.

CSX's specially painted Operation Lifesaver SD70MAC leads a combined I008/I010 past the old Ridgefield Park Station as it nears its final destination of North Bergen.

The trinity of what became the Chessie System sits idle in the SVRR (Shenandoah Valley Railroad) yard on a comfortable summer night in Staunton, Va. To left you have the DGVR 6512 in B&O sitting i... (more)

Harlem Farming. On Wednesday, August 16, 2023, MTA Metro-North Railroad operated an Inspection Train with recently wrapped heritage units MNCW 201 (Conrail/MTA) and 208 ("Beachball&quo... (more)

A perfectly matched A-B-A set of NYC lightning stripes FA's, hustled westbound on track 3 with a coal train at Lyons, N.Y. on October 17, 1956. Photo by David R. Connor, from my collection. ... (more)

Conrail And The Rainbow Era. The fuel pad at the MTA Metro-North Railroad Croton Harmon Yard showed the most colorful lineup of the available on MNR yesterday, Monday, August 14, 2023. Newl... (more)

Santa Fe GE C40-8W 949 built 10/93 at Chicago on October 26, 1993.

FNM (National Railways of Mexico) PA-1u #DH-19, ex Ferro del Pacific (Pacific RR), exx Delaware & Hudson #19, nee Santa Fe PA-1 #66 built in 1948, at Puebla, Mexico on December 27, 1991. Photo by... (more)

The CSX I00730 intermodal (North Bergen, NJ to Rose Lake, IL) crosses the Mohawk River on a hot summer Sunday afternoon.

"Town of Cary" 1871 arrives in its namesake on the point of the mid afternoon Piedmont to Charlotte.

A Saturday evening in Burlington, Iowa finds the Burlington Junction Railway's unique Alco C415 tied down in the railroad's yard north of town, awaiting its next assignment on the shortline. This ... (more)