After a gorgeous trip along the northern Hudson River Valley, I watched Saratoga & North Creek B-39 #8524 with BL-2 #52 trailing get positioned for the southbound run down to Saratoga Springs.

MRL forwarding BN train 121 starting up the grade westbbound out of Helena

Westbound BN train 125 departing Helena, MT

After swallowing the SL-SF, BN - and later BNSF - tried mightily to figure the best way to serve Mobile. After Frisco predecessor Alabama, Tennessee & Northern was abandoned, Mobile traffic was r... (more)

SLRG 8577 finally gets to back down to Coors barley plant after MoW has been repairing the lead track to the facility.

SLRG 8577 is exiting the yard limits east of Monte Vista after switching the SLC interchange.

Drivers on the George R. Bennett and Armistice Avenue are about to come to a stop as PR2 gets ready to sitch out cars at Teknor Apex.

With a skeleton crew working Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's train board, the single crewman mentality had reached nearly every part of the system by the end of 2011. The Searsport Branch was no exc... (more)

With it's work already done a while before, it was now kick-back time for Montreal, Maine & Atlantic's #211 on December 3, 2011. The sun was dropping fast behind Mosquito Mountain in Prospect, Ma... (more)

Nashville and Eastern power sits under the moonlight.

Wearing Nashville & Eastern's latest paint scheme, a copy of the BNSF heritage II paint scheme. The fresh painted "City of Watertown" is a former LMX unit.

Southern Pacific's Helper Local cruises west trough Provo with a GE B39-8 in the lead. The 8000 was built new by General Electric for the SP in Aug. 1987.

A trio of LMX B39-8s leads a SeaLand stack train on the B&OCT. This transfer originated at the BN's Cicero Yard and is very close to its destination of CSX's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

A trio of LMX B39-8s leads a BN intermodal train on the former Burlington "Racetrack." Tom Golden photo.