Almost 10 years ago, while driving through Jenison, heard the detector in Zeeland go off, and I knew I'd get to meet a train, probably Q326. Found them on the west end of Hudsonville, pulled off a... (more)
The Q394 experienced air problems earlier and the car department worked on the train for several hours at Blacks Run. As it passed me at Stoops Ferry, I saw the brakes set up on a dozen cars in t... (more)
All kinds of neat power on this one, a pair of Family Lines 40-2s, a BQ23-7, and a stealth CSX unit. It had been five years since Chessie and Seaboard merged but CSX was still a very colorful rail... (more)
A pair of SD40-2's of fallin flags Seaboard Coast Line and Louisville & Nashville run elephant style pulling a string of autoracks across the 1931 bridge over the Potomac River.
My vantage spot for this photo was an old Bollman bridge which spanned the tracks. The bridge has since been removed, and will be incorporated into the Allegheny Highlands Trail.
ATN 389, which will head up the line towards Gadsden recently leased from CSX to Omnitrax and now being operated as the Alabama & Tennessee River Railway (ATN), waits for NS traffic to clear at 32... (more)
CSX 8045 and a GP40-2 have just finished the 2nd trick yard job duties in the yard at Kingsport and now sit idle on this frosty December night.