A cold Valentine's Day sunset at 4:50 p.m. highlights the colorful trailing units headed up by an SD60E rebuilt from Conrail SD60 6688- UP 4316/5459 and NS 1700, the Erie-Lackawanna Heritage SD45-... (more)

Optical Illusion
No, this is not an imminent head-on collision. M9G meets H76 on the sweeping curve east of CP 88. M9G is slowing rolling to a stop on track 1 while H76 makes a run f... (more)

Railfan Allen Cheng Waves to NS M9G with a UP SD70M leader through Piscataway, NJ.

A ex-UP 90mac and an SD60, both of which will be rebuilt in the near future, lead westbound manifest train M9G.

Alternate History

A little before 2:00 PM, CNJ JA-3... err Extra NS M9G, is led by the "Jersey Girl" out of Oak Island. Maybe not fully believable as everything east of A... (more)

The Jersey Central heritage unit leads an extra 19G west out of Oak Island Yard. The gloomy day complements the coating of grime on the power. While frustrating, the dirty appearance of the CNJ ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Jersey Central heritage locomotive leads extra freight M9G west.

NS M9G, an extra 19G, races west under Pandora Road. The train wouldn't get much farther, encountering troubles with its second unit west of TROBE.

NS 2753 is on M9G at Myerstown, Pa 7/18/2015

An SD60E trio on M9G passes 20R's rear end at MP 310.

"Extra Oak Island Freight"

An extra westbound manifest with a whiteface SD70M leader heads under the signals at Summerhill. Track 1 and 2 are lit up for 534 and 20W...

Two of Norfolk Southern's newest locomotives, NS SD40E 6304 (rebuilt in January 2009 from SD50 6522), and NS SD40E 6301 (rebuilt in January 2009 from SD50S 6504), assisted westbound manifest M9G o... (more)

The present and future(?) of helper service? As the old stalwarts (SD40-2s 3427 and 3352) stand by at right, recently rebuilt SD40Es 6304 and 6301 are the head end helpers on westbound M9G,... (more)