Conrail OIPI pauses at the Kyle switch before working in Manville Yard. A scale test car occupies the track next to the main.

A pair of Conrail SD70MACs (4136 & 4131) lead SEEL west past Lock 10 along the Erie Canal.

Low early morning sun illuminates the scene as two Delaware Lackawanna crews are busy shuffling power and preparing their consists for a day of work. Soon 3642 will head east as PO74.

Q160 is led by one of the more colorful "post Conrail" consists to visit the River Sub during the fall of 1999. The NYS&W engine service facility is mostly empty except for a lone GP20,... (more)

The end of "Big Conrail" is near as TOPI-5 crosses the CSX at CP-285, Vickers diamond, in Northwood, OH. The power on this train is fitting, as within a few months NS would become the o... (more)

Two very clean YN2 units lead Q264 through the interlocking at CP7. At this point the River Sub had yet to be double-tracked between CP7 and CP5, but signs of the work to do so are clearly visibl... (more)

A Grande View! Rio Grande power dominates this January 2000 elevated view of the yard at Helper, UT. UP's LJP45 "Dirt Train" local has just arrived back in town and is seen passing a few ... (more)

The westbound UP "dirt train" has paused at Wash (just east of Wellington, UT) to pick up a single empty hopper from the small, mostly unused yard there. I assume this was a bad order c... (more)

Three Rio Grande tunnel motors lead the "dirt train" east along UP's Green River Sub just west of Wellington, UT. About 10 miles further east at Mounds the train will be routed onto the... (more)

GMRC 405 leads the return westbound leg of a late afternoon fall foliage excursion back to Chester.

A VRS local brings a cut of salt cars from Burlington to the Shelburne Transload Facility. The train is passing the last vestiges of fall color on a brisk, clear Saturday morning in northern Verm... (more)

The C636 and M630 leading Delaware Lackawanna PO74 send up a column of exhaust smoke as they work hard switching Keystone Propane in Tobyhanna, PA.

A two-unit PO74 passes the former Lackawanna freight station at Moscow, PA. A little snow remains in this area from recent storm, but within a few hours the temperature would reach the low 50s on... (more)

Delaware Lackawanna PO74 arrives at Tobyhanna where the crew will spend some time switching Keystone Propane and rearranging their consist for a round trip to Mt. Pocono.

The rolling red billboard, leading Northeast Regional train 171, is about to be overtaken by an Acela consist as both trains approach Edison station on the NEC.