A nice little surprise at Selkirk Yard as the crew yards the train off Track 7. A brief flash of sun managed to squeeze out of another cold, gloomy March day.

Wow, I picked the right day to venture back to NY! Not having been in the area since last year I told myself "just go Sunday" and little did I know that heritage unit NS 1072 was making it's way ... (more)

A quite evening in the CSX Service Center.

Night shop crews are busy working on a variety of locomotives at Selkirk Yard in Selkirk, New York. Inside the shed are CSXT SD70MAC 4817 and at least 2 or 3 more Big Macs. Several personnel are... (more)

A nice after work treat as I arrived at Selkirk Yard. The Hudson local is seen coming into Track 6 receiving yard with some empties with three former Conrail SD40-2s. Something you don't see t... (more)

A clean GP15-2 rebuild(former CSXT nee Conrail) basks in the low January sun at Selkirk Yard with a couple fellow EMD leasers. The unit was recently retrieved out of Solvay/Syracuse off it's tr... (more)

BNSF engine 7574 sits at the Selkirk yard awaiting it's next assignment. Area railfan's have begun to notice an increase in "foreign power" as of late.

Carrying a blue flag to mount on the locomotive for protection from movement, a worker inspects rows of engines at CSX's Selkirk engine facility.

Conrail B23-7s fill the yard in Selkirk as their days were numbered following the takeover by CSX and NS. Also visible are a pair of newly delivered CSX AC6000 engines 636 and 634 to the right. O... (more)

Looking more like British Columbia then upstate NY, the Selkirk service area hosts an ex BC Rail M420 in transit from Utica to Scranton and a set of run through CN power.

Every now and then a standard cab led, solid EMD set will pull out of Selkirk for the River Sub. But it happens much less often these days then one might hope.

This former British Columbia unit still in BC Rail colors was at the CSX Selkirk engine facility, either in for repairs or in transit. It is normally based out of Utica, NY. Unit is ex BC Rail 642

A study of EMDs at the Selkirk Fuel Pit with the newly arrived Lackawnna schemed E8s 808 & 807 out of Dewitt to be delivered to the Saratoga & North Creek.

With the Y-122 Port crew aboard, the CSXT "dirty dirt" empty gon train heads for the Albany Secondary for it's evening journey up the CP/D&H Colonie Sub for Fort Edward to drop the empties and ... (more)

Upon initial arrival to Selkirk today, there did not appear to be to much of anything intersting. However, a glimpse of a bright yellow locomotive caught my sight amidst a sea of CSX engines. Up... (more)