The stars of the show on this fine evening are an ever-hard to come by SW1001 #103, used as a yard switcher by the LIRR, a two of a kind Progress Rail PR20B #300 owned by LIRR, operated by New Yor... (more)

DE30AC locomotives 409 and 423 bracket the DOTX #221 which is an automated track inspection car dispatched by the Federal Railroad Administration. This classy looking car was built in 1954 as Cana... (more)

DE30AC locomotives 409 and 423 bracket the DOTX #221 which is an automated track inspection car dispatched by the Federal Railroad Administration. This classy looking car was built in 1954 as Cana... (more)

I had one foot in Vermont and the other standing in the waters of the Connecticut River in New Hampshire when I snapped this northbound 323 in the last rays of light on the last day of April. An S... (more)

In what may possibly be the final eastward movement ever of a Budd M3 on LIRR rails, the 9938 leads a set of 10 beleaguered cars for temporary storage in Ronkonkoma Yard. This train will join abou... (more)

It's likely the end of the line for this string of Budd-built M3s and about 70 other cars just like it, located on adjacent yard tracks. The Coronavirus pandemic cut LIRR ridership by over 80% neg... (more)

Sister locomotives 155 and 159 lead this day's RS40 past the old B Tower and ancient Beth Interlocking sentinels at 10:58AM.

NYAR's RS30 rolls through the curve at Beth with 7,500 horsepower tugging on 40 cars of crushed stone for Prima Asphalt in Holtsville, NY on its once-regular Saturday move.

In their almost-daily weekly move, the NYAR RS40 with engines 261 and CITX 402 snakes its way east onto the Central Branch to drop empty C&D hoppers and loaded stone hoppers at One World Recycling... (more)

A weekend extra in the form of NYAR RS71 has the 261 leading a container train full of contaminated soil westbound through LIRR's Brentwood passenger station. The train would soon enter Pine Aire ... (more)

Two SD40M-2s team up with newly acquired GP38-2 #2168 to bring the NECR 611 south to Palmer, MA from Brattleboro, VT. East Northfield is the interlocking that controls the junction between the NEC... (more)

After dropping a car and picking up two others, the Conductor of NECR southbound 611 lines the hand-thrown derail for the siding. Temperatures on this day were 3°F with windchills around -10°F. Th... (more)

NECR southbound 611 enters the siding at Vernon-Yankee in Vernon, VT to set off a tank car and pick up a tank and a hopper. Temperatures on this day were 3°F with windchills around -10°F. Two SD40... (more)

NECR southbound 611 slows to a stop at the Yankee siding in Vernon, VT to set off a tank car and pick up a tank and a hopper. Temperatures on this day were 3°F with windchills around -10°F.

The Southbound 611 crew hustles past the station sign for Vernon at 7:59am with track warrant in hand to proceed from Milepost 119 to 70. Engines are NECR 3476, 3405 and 3317 with about 40 cars.