A local heads south with a few loads to Butler pulled by two classic B&LE orange and black EMD engines.
HRT SD38 #654 passes a former cotton warehouse in Bowersville, GA 10/5/20. Ahead is Airline Junction where the original HRT line connected with the Southern. The crew will drop its train and con... (more)
SD38 2000 out of the shop.
The McCloud River's Hill Job is arriving at the Signal Butte switchback, led by SD38 MR 38. Out of sight around the curve, SD38-2 MR 39 is shoving the rear of the train up the grade. Once the MR... (more)
The McCloud River's Sierra Job has just crossed Lake Britton, and is now crossing CA 89 on the climb away from the lake. It is returning to McCloud after switching out the big Sierra Pacific sawmi... (more)
Taken with permission and proper PPE. Thanks to R&N for their hospitality.
McCloud Railway's weekly train to the BNSF interchange at Lookout rolls east of McCloud. By 2001, vegetation was starting to intrude on the right of way.
Enroute to the Union Pacific interchange at Mount Shasta City, McCloud Railway's Hill Job shoves away from the Signal Butte switchback.
Engineer Malen Johnson departs McCloud with the weekly train to the BNSF interchange at Lookout. Johnson is running the train by himself. An MR employee will drive to Lookout to assist with the sw... (more)
One of Conrail's 35 ex-PC SD38s fresh out of the Juniata Locomotive Shop paint shop switches Rose Yard.
The southbound Hartwell road train shoots the gap in Lavonia, GA with the railroad's former EJ&E SD38 leading the train to Bowersville.
A former EJ&E SD38 leads a short Hartwell train around a curve near Eatanollee Georgia.
Former EJ&E now HRT SD38 #654 and former C&NW now HRT GP9 #4556 are seen here resting for the night in Bowersville, GA.
After spending time at the Greenville Shops for regular maintenance, BLE 862 is heading back to the docks at Conneaut where it typically works as a captive switcher. BLE 862 is still wearing DMIR ... (more)
Ex EJ&E SD38 now HRT 654 sits silently under the sun in Bowersville, GA.