The NS 8135 backs the last cut of limestone from the 68R into the East Yard at Belews Creek Steam Station. This is used in the plant WFGD or "scrubber" system and is injected into the flue gas to ... (more)

The NS 6702 waits in the East Yard for the recently delivered load of limestone to be unloaded. This is used in the plant WFGD or "scrubber" system and is injected into the flue gas to help reduce... (more)

A quartet of GP60s led by UP 1934 creeps up to the Heywood Road crossing just North of Waukomis, OK to pick up a crew member. The train of empty rock cars has just left the Dolese Brothers aggreg... (more)

A former Union Pacific SD50, now owned and lettered for CEMEX, powers a train from the Bell Mountain mine down the old Mojave Northern rail line to the old Southwest Portland cement plant near Vic... (more)

A trio of SD70Aces leads a load of limestone for Plant Wansley's scrubbers along the rural and scenic "I" line between Cleveland TN and Cohutta GA. Of interest is the unit on the point - NS 1030 ... (more)

Led by two Dash-9s, NS Train #375 rumbles across the old Big Four's Wabash River bridge at Carol, IN, with 20 loaded limestone cars. Constructed by a subsidary of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicag... (more)

NKP 8100 stops in Leetsdale to spot the 62M stone train at the MolDok.

Becker Sand and Gravel never made much effort to pretty up their locomotives or to straighten bent stuff or to replace worn out wheels or much of anything. Here is a prime example of a gravel pit... (more)

The sound of non-turbo EMD prime mover is the only sound heard this morning in the vast empty farmland just north of Elizabeth City as 2190 barks along with 37 loaded stone cars in tow - all desti... (more)

It's that time of year, and Shelly Materials 321 is donning the usual Christmas decor. This photo was taken a couple hours after the Santa Train ran into downtown for the Christmas festival.

The UBEG crew slowly rolls down the main, prior to backing their cut of stone hoppers on to the siding for offload, before continuing on to the CSX interchange in Emory Grove.

An unnumbered Bardon RS1 unloads an aggregate train on the Solite siding along the CSXT (former RF&P) mainline on a beautiful fall morning. This locomotive, former Washington Terminal #50, had be... (more)

It is early morning, but for the engine it is dusk ...

This venerable U23B, ex-CR, ex-LV 503 (ex-Wimpey, ex-Tarmac), works the unloading track on one of its final days; I was told that it... (more)

A freshly painted AC4400 leads this unit rock train with aggregate loads in an interesting zig-zag motion from Track 1 to the Dothan Subdivision on a fantastic May afternoon in Montgomery.

The Vermont Capital District is rich with 'signs' from the heritage of granite mining that defined the area and even the rail operation. The BESW is hauling ballast to rehab the VRS Granite Distr... (more)