Freeport McMoran #63 accelerates up the steep grade out of Clifton, while three units wait in the runaway track for the train to pass. Soon these other units will head into Clifton to retrieve the... (more)

Freeport McMoran #49 is in full dynamic as the loaded train descends the steep grade to Clifton.

Freeport McMoran #63 throttles up the start of the steep %.5% grade out of Clifton yard. This train will climb over 1200 feet vertical over the next 6 miles of railroad, the steepest operating fre... (more)

Freeport McMoran #63 storms up the 5.5% grade out of Clifton with a heavy train for the Morenci Mine.

NECR 608 heads south past Columbia Junction with two 38's notching up, letting out a little smoke.

Freeport McMoran GP38 #55 storms up the 5.5% grade out of Clifton, AZ with the first cut of cars for the smelter and mine. This train will climb nearly 1300 feet vertical in the next 6 miles.

On a foggy coastal Sunday morning, the North Coast Daylight stands on 1st Street in Eureka. The train is being prepared for its trip to Willits.

NECR 608 heads south through Willimantic Yard with a pair of blue and golds leading lumber for C.C. Lounsbury in South Windham. I am standing on the famous footbridge over the yard.

NECR 608 heads south into Willimantic, passing some remains of the old Central Vermont Railroad and New Haven Railroad. The retaining stone wall to the right of 608 is from the CV, and the track i... (more)

NECR 608 passes 608X's power in Willimantic. the track that 3039 is sitting on is the old NH Hartford Line from Willimantic to Hartford. Most of the line is torn up, with the small sections in Wil... (more)

In a scene that looks straight out of the 90's, 610 heads south over Horton Cove in Montville with a pair of blue and golds for power.

Five matched 38 “golds” slog a small freight north along Route 12 out of Bellows Falls along the Connecticut River Valley on a warm May afternoon. One of those classic “so glad I did tha... (more)

Rarely seen leading on the road, and with its sibling 7822 off roster, this was an opportunity that couldn't be passed up. BPRR 7803 still in CR Blue leads loaded coal DBBF into Buffalo.

Winchester and Western 86 was running late this evening by about an hour. It made for this incredible scene as it crossed the Potomac River into Maryland just before sunset on its way to Hagerstow... (more)