As the fog began to clear, Ex. Conrail CSX 7351 in YN2 & CSX 8136 lead the Q386 elephant style into the early morning sun passing through the Amsterdam Amtrak Station just over 11 years ago.

Like a ghost train BNSF 6412 pulling the G998 loaded unit grain train for the Port of Albany rockets out of the early morning Mohawk River fog and into Amsterdam passing through the Amtrak Station... (more)

Story of a 6000 & a Spongebob. CSX 664 & CSX 4042 elephant style pull the Q626 eastbound through Amsterdam Amtrak Station on a sunny morning 11 years ago.

CSXT Train W990-24 passes lock 10 on the Mohawk River with a windmill part fresh from GE in Schenectady.

Following behind the M364, Amtrak 48 with engineer DTM at the controls slowly rolls through the City of Amsterdam in the CP-175 interlocking alongside the former New York Central freight house on ... (more)

Cruising out of Amsterdam, M368 being lead by two "thunder cab" UP ACe's with refer cars on the head-end brings back memories of the late Q090 "Salad Shooter/Produce Express" a... (more)

After sitting on the Amsterdam weeds filled siding for well over a year, a tank car involved and damaged in the August 4th, 2023 derailment in Cranseville, NY with two center-beam flat cars are fi... (more)

CSX 4562 "Un-Flared" MAC singly pulls the M267 empty-auto into Amsterdam over Quist Rd.

With the yard at Quist Rd. in Amsterdam now almost fully ripped up and decommissioned, an old switch box still remains for the last two remaining abandoned spurs which veer off the siding between ... (more)

Spirits In The Morning. On their first trip to the northeast, National EMS Week 2019 was being celebrated as CSXT 911 (Spirit Of Our First Responders) and CSXT 1776 (spirit Of Our Armed For... (more)

Dashing through the snow, a late Amtrak 284 highballs Amsterdam Station with no defects at the Guy Park Detector. Unfortunately the train was very delayed Monday due a fatal accident after the 701... (more)

During the heaviest period of the snow storm, CSX 3276 pulls an eastbound manifest through the City of Amsterdam passing by the old NYC depot and taking down CP-175.

Seaboard Coast Style. On the afternoon of August 6, 2023, CSXT 7868 (C40-8W, 2/1993) led a group of six locomotives on CSX I003-06, seen passing the NY 173 milepost near lock 10 on the Erie... (more)

P048 rolls to a stop at CP 175 due to an I004 that took a hotbox hit at 177.

P048 rolls by Lock 10 preparing to stop at CP 169.