Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right... G74 drops his conductor for a shove, while intermodal 249 01 & CSX L69401 pass by.

Battle of 100 Loads One Hundred loads of rock is lifted up South Draw for a West-Slope track project. The very heavy westbound is slowly moving up the 2%+ grade and 10 degree curves of S... (more)

With 35mins left of sunlight, IC 6251 takes a quartet of SD40 products out of Burnett with limestone loads.

After being shopped for two weeks, to our surprise, we see IC 6251 shove a limestone set underneath I-35. After getting signals, we race up the line to watch the quartet of SD40s crawl uphill in s... (more)

An eastbound rock train departs the siding in Cibolo

Fire In Town. On July 23, 2015, an early morning fire in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia caused tremendous smoke throughout the area, though miraculously only damaged three buildings and there... (more)

This westbound rock train has stalled despite all the units. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection. Happy July 4th!

A trio of MLW's have arrived in Turtlepoint, Pennsylvania and shove their train of loaded stone hoppers into the Glenn O Hawbaker siding for unloading. Once the cars are tied down, the crew will r... (more)

While the rain has passed, it's still a rather dreary evening at the Wheeling & Lake Erie Yard in Akron, Ohio as two trains meet on the west end of the yard. A pair of SD40-2's are tied down on a ... (more)

CSXT 1776 "Spirit of our Armed Forces" leads B451 the evening Rock Runner returning empties from Bladensburg, MD back to Millville, WV. Seen here crossing the well known wooden trestle t... (more)

An SD70ACC leads NS 350 through Cary, with limestone gons kicking up dust in the background.

Due to ease of access, this was no doubt the most photographed railroad subject in New Jersey over the course of a gloomy April weekend. NS 1700 spent the weekend parked at this location just east... (more)

Matched Oranges. Genesee & Wyoming owned Providence and Worcester Railroad' tri-weekly train FPCH (Fresh Pond [Queens], NY-Cedar Hill [New Haven], CT) had a four-pack of GE C40-8s for power... (more)

CSX 3003 leads B449 across Holmes Center Rd as it makes its way into Bucyrus and onto the Ft. Wayne Line.

An NJ Transit stone train carefully threads its way through Bridgewater's Chimney Rock shopping district while bringing nine loads out of the Stavola Quarry. This is the second NJ Transit stone t... (more)