After running to Mount Airy and back, YVRR's two 4 axle geeps are tied up for the day at Rural Hall.
Like a giant snake, CMGN 9712 is on the point of a loaded coal train bound for the Consumers Energy power plant at Essexville, MI. The train will back up through the yard onto the CN Flint subdivi... (more)
It's late in the day and the crew has gone home. The local switchers drowse away in their usual spot waiting to go back to work in the morning. This sure would be pretty in blue. Hint, hint. M... (more)
As rain threatens in the west the eastbound daily train pulls some empty hoppers out of Circle S Ranch's huge feed mill. They will move the cars to Grace to make room for an inbound grain train. ... (more)
Years ago CN bought a slew of these and seemed to almost immediately decided they didn't need them all. They ended up all over. With added dynamic brakes they look great. A snow hood would be n... (more)
Three ex-CN GP40-2LW units, once the mainstays of the fleet, are stored on the ACWR in Seven Lakes.
After a day and and a half it has stopped raining. This EB train has been tasked with clearing out the big mill to make room for an inbound unit train. Some cars will be stored and the rest will... (more)
A variety of SJVR power awaits their next assignment in Bakersfield.
An ex-CN GP40-2LW is tied up at CPF-256 between Newmarket and Newfields, New Hamphire. MEC 506 is power for the DO-1 local, and is parked on the entrance to the Portsmouth Branch. Of note is the t... (more)
PORU crosses the Androscoggin River between Auburn and Lewiston. In a few miles, they'll diverge off the Freight Main Line and onto the Rumford Branch for the trip to a large paper mill.
At Cumberland, PORU passes part of an ongoing double tracking project.
PORU crosses the Fore River on a hot summer morning in Maine.
After the crew ran out of hours on the outskirts of Concord, a couple railfans and I had an impromptu photo shoot with the wide-cab geep.
RARE MILEAGE! To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the founding of the Grand Elk Railroad, Watco ran a series of trips over the Grand Elk Railroad using one of the WSOR's cars and a privately o... (more)
CN GP40-2LW 9611 and 9544 with two Burlington Northern F45's 6609 and 6611 eastbound at Ottawa, Ontario on March 04, 1987.
