A trio of classic EMD's belch smoke as they crawl up the grade on Batavia Hill with 958 axles of freight in tow.

Locomotives:
CSXT 8196 SD40-2
CSXT 8013 SD40-2
CSXT 8521 SD50-2

Moving at a snail's pace with 958 axles of mixed freight behind them, three classic EMD's smoke their way up Batavia Hill.

Locomotives:
CSXT 8196 SD40-2
CSXT 8013 SD40-2
CSXT 8521... (more)

With only about 10 minutes of evening sun left, BNSF 6072 (ES44AC) pulls a heavy freight of scrap metal gondolas from the Denver Yard. As the trio of engines strain to get the string moving, the ... (more)

At 958 axles, three older EMDs use everything they have to pull monster mixed freight Q263 through Bergen, NY.

Locomotives:
CSXT 8196 SD40-2
CSXT 8013 SD40-2
CSXT 8521 SD50-2

With a satisfying burp of Alco smoke, a trio of Delaware & Hudson Century 628s get underway out of Mechanicville, NY, with a Binghamton-bound freight.

With 3 standard cab EMD's smokin' Q263 comes around the bend in Macedon, NY.

Locomotives:
CSXT 8196 SD40-2
CSXT 8013 SD40-2
CSXT 8521 SD50-2

UPY 577 (GP5-1) pulls hard on a string of freight in the 36th Street Yard

A trio of SD40-2s, now out of service/scrapped/sold, exit with the transfer from Detroit through the international tunnel in a cloud of black smoke

The last rays of sunlight are fading as Foley quickly falls into shadows. These rays highlight the brake shoe smoke and exhaust as an eastbound mixed freight descends the east side of Sand Patch. ... (more)

Blowing Smoke: M&E 19 belches out smoke as it crosses the Rockaway River during a photo run and excursion for members of the Tri-State Railway Historical Society.

Guilford Rail System GP40 353 belches out a little smoke, as it leads Pan Am Railways EDPL south through Longmeadow, MA.

More locomotives than cars.... Canadian National#529 has just pounded the CN/CP diamond as it splits signal #232 heading north toward Montreal. NS 6698 9475 7582 9018 8803 CP 8937.

MTSX 418 (GP15-1) leads a steel job out of the East Chicago, Indiana Arcelormittal steel plant.

On the morning of August 26 I had a shot in mind, so I set up at a frequently visited spot for the glint. Like a few weeks prior had a few trains backed up. The auto train had been sitting there ... (more)

Old warhorse NS 8444 belches black smoke as it throttles up with it's colorful consist of containers in tow at CP 194 on the NS Chicago Line