Traveling light engines on June 25, 2004, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local trundles into East Carbon under a spectacular thunderhead building over Utah’s Book Cliffs. Three Rio Gra... (more)
No. 5371, the last Rio Grande locomotive in original numbers and paint on the Union Pacific system at the time, is teamed up with two UP SD40-2s and is being used as a rear helper pushing MNYPV (D... (more)
“Close Encounters” ~ Eerily silent – the florescent landing lights and glow of what at first glance appears to be an alien craft counting down to liftoff thrusting its rocket, spear-like plu... (more)
A pair of RJ Corman EMD's bring a loaded coal train into Keating with a tunnel motor smoking on the point. Locomotives:RJC 8336 SD40T-2RJC 3478 SD40-2
January 3rd brought a friend and I to the Bessemer in anticipation of seeing the 867 lead North. It had been in the power set for the ore train for a number of days, so chances seemed pretty good ... (more)
After helping the head end with its outbound coal loads, a pair of R.J. Corman EMD SD40-2Ts head for the crew base near Thurmond. In 2017, R.J. Corman crews painted both of the locomotives used on... (more)
An Indiana Railways autorack train departs CSX's Queesngate Yard and heads for home rails, passing B&O signals. Locomotives:IORY 4070 SD40T-2HLCX 7014 SD40-2
Rio Grande #5376 heads up this consist on an empty coal train approaching Tunnel #1 that also includes a Santa Fe SD45 in the SPSF merger scheme and Santa Fe #5501, a SD45 B-unit!
An Indiana Railways autorack train passes through the Ohio River floodwall and pounds the diamond as it departs Cincinnati. Locomotives:IORY 4070 SD40T-2HLCX 7014 SD40-2
An Indiana Railways autorack train departs CSX's Queensgate yard in Cincinnati and passes by old B&O signals. Locomotives:IORY 4070 SD40T-2HLCX 7014 SD40-2
NYS&W all EMD SD40T-2 3010, CSX SD40-2 8839, and SD45s 3634, 3618.
One of the hotter trains on the Shasta Route in the 80s was the CZLAT, which carried paper barged to Portland from a Crown Zellerbach mill in Camas, Washington. Here, a manifest has been put away... (more)
An IORY Tunnel Motor leads an autorack train out of CSX's Queensgate yard and approaches the Ohio River floodwalls to head back towards home rails. Locomotives:IORY 4070 SD40T-2HLC... (more)
