26,000 horsepower, zero cars. After dropping off some cars at the R.J. Corman interchange in Cresson, NS local C51 drops down the West Slope on its return trip to South Fork. NS SD80MAC 720... (more)

This is the Land of Perpetual Cloudiness? On a rare sunny day in Binghamton, we found Susquehanna 3018 switching the Frito Lay plant on the outskirts of town. Notice the differences between... (more)

While hundreds of people were gathered around CP's Holiday Train just across the river, these two Susquehanna EMDs sat idling near the Frito Lay plant alongside Route 11 mostly unnoticed. Note the... (more)

NS SD40-2s 3368 and 3344 hold manifest 36A back as it emerges from the New Portage Tunnel and begins to descend The Slide. The head end of westbound manifest 11K has just entered the Allegheny Tu... (more)

The chase of these two MACs over the summit of the Alleghenies ends at the bottom of Horseshoe Curve, as NS 650, lead by 7210 and still blue 7208, grinds around one of the most famous railroad mon... (more)

What I'm thankful for... Besides the usual stuff (family, friends, health, job), I am thankful for a railfanning companion whose always up for a trip, no matter how ridiculous it seems (a 2... (more)

What I'm thankful for... Besides the usual stuff (family, friends, health, job), I am thankful for a reliable car that can take me on my railfanning adventures, including 15-hour drives eac... (more)

Dress blues. The main reason for our Cresson trip (besides the snow) was to see if we could find the last two blue ex-Conrail SD80MACs. When we arrived in Cresson on Saturday afternoon, we ... (more)

NS 9436 kicks up some fresh snow as it leads an unknown van train (symbol needed) east through Cresson during a brief snow shower on Saturday afternoon. It is seen passing NS 2686 on an empty coal... (more)

After a maintainer had Track 1 out of service for a few hours between MO (Cresson) and MG, NS 36A was the first train on the reopened track. NS SD70M 2598 and C40-9W 9369 crest the summit in front... (more)

The only good thing about having clouds during a photo charter is, if you get sun at some point, you can get great storm light shots, like this photo of New Hope & Ivyland's 40 on a mixed train du... (more)

Tight squeeze. BDRV GP9 1850 leads Susquehanna 2-8-2 142 through a couple of abandoned industrial buildings on the return trip to Phillipsburg, NJ. The Mikado had spent the past few months ... (more)

Welcome to Omaha. The first thing you see after crossing the Missouri River in Nebraska on Interstate 80 is this display on the hill above the highway. Union Pacific Big Boy 4023 and Centen... (more)

What is with Pennsylvania and its colorful engines? First, the Reading & Northern 425 emerges in blue, and now Strasburg has painted Canadian National 0-6-0 7312 a reddish-orange color, seen here ... (more)

A seagull tries to keep out of the wind and the Judith Ann bobs in the cold waters of the Shark River as NJT 4218, built as Penn Central GP40 3199, leads a Long Branch-Bay Head shuttle southbound ... (more)