While the New St. Nick Extra is loaded on the New Side pad at Reading Anthracite, five rusty hoppers sit on the Old Side next to the lab that tests samples from each car for various qualities.

One of the more unlikely Class 1 operations that's survived through 2022 in NC is NS's "J Line" branch to Chapel Hill, where the University of North Carolina has a coal fired power plant... (more)

Two Aberdeen & Rockfish units sit at the shops in Aberdeen NC. On the left, AR 400, a GP38 built for the Aberdeen & Rockfish. Next to it is AR 2486, an CF7 built originally for ATSF, then bought b... (more)

NS 22V heads east on the Norfolk Southern Lehigh Line on a hot Wednesday morning. Within 2 months, NS 22V's schedule would be reduced from being a daily train to a Tuesday-only train. Behind the l... (more)

“Take This Job…”
A shoving platform, CSXT 900077, which is a former N&W class C-31 caboose (NW 518500), is used to protect the extensive reverse move made by CSX’s “Letterkenny... (more)

LV 301 was one of only two Valley diesels (RS-3 #216 the other) to receive this application of a 4 feet wide yellow band around the entire unit. Photo by Robert Wilt, photo part of my slide co... (more)

CSX 7259, a clean AC44 rebuild, leads the MSZSH north through Beasley on the KCS Rosenberg Sub.

After making a stop for the kids on board to have an Easter Egg Hunt, the LM&M's Easter Bunny Express rolls southbound on former CL&N rails in Turtlecreek Township behind Conrail-painted GP10 No. ... (more)

For the third time since being repainted, the CSXT OCS is utilizing the "Bow Line" to/from Waycross. From a chase perspective, you couldn't ask for a more ideal situation. Today they wil... (more)

The OCS is running from Jax to New Orleans via the "Bow Line" today.

How You Know It’s Not The Subway. Metropolitan Transportation Authority - MTA Staten Island Railway is a 21 station, 14 mile line that is presently the only operating passenger rail in Ri... (more)

Blow Me! New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) Hurricane Jet Snow Blower JB003 is seen at Coney Island Yard on April 10, 2022, with its "business end" facing the camera. These machines... (more)

CN 3822 with the HBARBAK passes through the Tehachapi Valley at Monolith.

BNSF's Barstow to Bakersfield manifest heads north out of Mojave with CN 3822 on the rear.

RNCX 1869 departs its namesake City on the rear of train 75 as they approach Funston.