Christmas on the IHB finds the IHB 3800 on a Table Lead at the Gibson Roundhouse. A bit windy and very cold today the yard was and radio was mostly quiet. Just as the 3800 was doing I found mysel... (more)
Lost Then Found. Chesapeake Western 662 (DS-4-4-660, Baldwin, 12/1946) spent its life on the CW until being retired in 1964, and was then sent to a scrap yard in Roanoke, Virginia to be cut... (more)
Damaged rail can be caused by flat spots on wheels and high tonnage. Defects like this one can eventually give way and cause a derailment, especially in cold weather. Railroads are usually thorou... (more)
Winter in Montana can be brutal, and during one of these bitter cold days, a Montana Rail Link section crew digs out a switch serving Thompson River Lumber before MRL’s Paradise local arrives to... (more)