With a DPU down and a huge train on unable to proceed considering tonnage grades etc. they are waiting while conductor ties down 40+ brakes on the section behind the DPUs. It’s 12:38. They’... (more)

This train of junk freight didn’t have a prayer, maximum tonnage, minimum power, then on the downgrade their one AC, a DPU, blew an engine. Maximum grades ahead. Setting brakes, moving all p... (more)

A late CN 528 is rounding a curve after passing the ex-GTR station in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Almost never running in daylight these days, a very late CN 528 is on its way to Rouses Point with NS 7685, NS 9441 and 40 cars on a brutally cold and windy morning. There it will get a CP crew an... (more)

NS 7685, an ES40DC which surprisingly has not yet been converted to AC power as part of Norfolk Southern's rebuild program, leads Intermodal train 21Q west through downtown Alliance, OH.

21M overtakes another intermodal at Cresson.

A whiteface leader. CN 529 has four NS units, including an ex-UP SD9043MAC as it passes through Montreal West. Power is NS 7685, NS 2567, NS 9885 & NS 7303.

Passing the soon-to-be replaced signals at Licking Run

The extra section to 23M rolls through Prospect westbound on a pleasant February afternoon.

Stack train 228 passes the signal at MP 30 in Centerville on the Lurgan Branch seen from across a snow-covered field. The trailing unit, NS 7242, is one of the almost 100 former UP SD90MACs NS pur... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific train crosses the Harahan Bridge into West Memphis, Arkansas, with a Thoroughbred locomotive leading the way. This train originated as Norfolk Southern train number 17Z ... (more)

After waiting for the 561 to roll by NS 562 gets the signal to head north through Peters Creek. The bridge above the train is used by the Union railroad a couple times a week to service a coke scr... (more)

NS 7685 leads train U49 out of Andover Yard and around the back let of the wye at Appalachia for the quick run up the hill to Norton on a beautiful autumn morning.

NS U49 rounds the curve and climbs the stiff grade at Top just before entering Norton Yard to tie their train down after the short run up the hill from Andover.

With frontend loaders preparing to fill the first cut of 55 cars, NS 77G glides downhill to the scalehouse first to weigh the mtys.