Bright future under dark skies... CSX YN2-painted GP40-2 No. 4419 enters South Charleston yard limits on a restricting signal after exchanging loaded covered hoppers for empties at West Virginia M... (more)

Passing through West Virginia's capitol city and the Charleston Amtrak station, CSX H701, known locally as the Gauley Trolley, rolls along the Kanawha River with empty covered hoppers from Alloy. ... (more)

CSX's Gauley Trolley under the alias of H701 returns west through Montgomery, W.Va., after switching West Virginia Manufacturing's Alloy, W.Va., plant on Watco trackage rights. Spring is in... (more)

Built in May 1978 for Conrail, this 43-year-old EMD GP40-2 continues to wear CSX's ever increasingly rare "Bright Future" YN2 paint scheme as it lays over in the railroad's former C&O ya... (more)

Two Apart: Conrail's SA2 is serving Silverline Windows at the west end of the former Raritan River Railroad Line. CSXT 4419 is ex-CR 3322. The second unit, NS 3026 (GP40-2) is ex-CR 3324. W... (more)

CSX local A720 is seen here tied down for the weekend at LaGrange, GA, with GP40-2 #4419 still in its YN2 paint scheme

One of the few remaining YN2 painted standard cab units on the active roster, CSXT GP40-2 4419 is at Lagrange, Georgia in the early hours of April 25, 2020 while assigned to A720.

"Waiting for Clearance"

The OI-10 is sitting on the Irvington Industrial awaiting clearance into Oak Island. With 22V approaching OI and 15J waiting to depart OI-10... (more)

An ex-Conrail GP40, still in very good bright future paint, sits in the Elizabetport section of the secondary. In the background is Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).

Approaching the End of the Line - SA31 passes by an old Central Railroad of New Jersey phone shanty as they approach Halls Mill Road. A hopper full of sodium hydroxide perhaps is being de... (more)

The Chase Concludes - After serving Prestone, the SA31 crew is now shoving an empty tank car west through farmland back toward downtown Freehold. The conductor in his florescent green s... (more)

Just East of Downtown - I've had this shot planned for two years and finally it has come to fruition. This train is now without the centerbeam car Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD GP40-2
Location: Freehold, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 4419
Train ID: CR WPSA31
Photo Date: March 23, 2015

The Chase Continues... - After catching the train on the Amboy Secondary at Vliet St. (click here) I drove to James... (more)

The Chase Was On... - A midday local heads west on the Amboy Secondary crossing Vliet St. It's Monday and so that means this train is headed for the Freehold Industrial Track. Twice a wee... (more)

An assortment of low hood and high hood geeps along with a Conrail SL 3015 jet snow-blower rest near the Shared Assets Pavonia Yard engine house.