On a beautiful day out in the Blue Ridge Mountains NS 195 took my brother and I by surprise. As it rounded the corner at Shawsville Va and made it's way to use we quickly realized it was a ex Conr... (more)

Fresh off a meet with 18M, NS 53R accelerates past the CPL bracket at Delorme with a rare SD80MAC leader. Ironically, I shot this same unit as it made its way out of Atlanta last month leading hot... (more)

With 25,000 HP (Five, yes, five SD80MAC's) and just 8 cars, C51 was the main attraction on this day.

Southbound at mp 248 , with four engines , last one is a high hood EMD GP38.

I've had a good streak of luck lately with SD80MACs, and this added to it. One of the huge ex-Conrail EMDs leads empty grain train 53R west at Delorme on the Williamson District.

Sometimes it is nice to be surprised, in this case with a SD80MAC leading train 212. The 7203 had been bouncing around Atlanta, however it wasn't showing in Inman Yard or as assigned to 212 when ... (more)

Former Conrail SD80MAC leads a southbound.

A pair of former Conrail locomotives, SD80MAC 7204 and SD60I 6734, lead a late 223 into Moberly.

A pair of SD80MACs have just crossed the Cuyahoga River and are now making their way upgrade. Visible in the background is one of the two old B&O lift bridges (in black) that Cleveland has kept in... (more)

A big SD80MAC leads 212.

You can imagine my surprise when a friend called saying 212 was out of Atlanta with an SD80MAC leading. These units are typically held captive in Pennsylvania, but one escaped and wandered down to... (more)

A rare locomotive outside the state of Pennsylvania, one of the 17 ex-Conrail SD80MACs rumbles through downtown Flowery Branch on a pleasant February morning in the lead of hotshot intermodal 212.

"Bright Colors on a Dreary Day"

Fall foliage is nearing peak in Altoona, PA as an empty coal train heads West with one of my personal favorite locomotives on point, the SD80MAC.