A nice unlikely surprise, the older leading the newer. An SD40-2 leads an ET44AH on a BNSF autorack train through the Twin Cities, just leaving Northtown yard.
A pair of recently repainted EMD's pilot a work gang repositioning train south on the B&O, passing under the iconic B&O style cantilever at Deshler Reservoir.
In the evening light a ballast train participating in the construction of the new Loachapoka siding makes its way out of the Vulcan quarry and onto the mainline for the last time. Tomorrow the sw... (more)
A pair of EMD standard cabs rest for the night in the Notasulga siding after being tied down earlier. Tomorrow this set of locomotives will be the power for a ballast train that will put down fres... (more)
A CSX veteran, 8369 looks, (and sounds...) like new under the lights in here, wearing the latest paint scheme, leading a manifest out of the West Portal of Sand Patch at 05:11.
Three SD40-2's are a welcome sight amidst a constant parade of widecabs. Southbound CSX manifest departs CP-7 on it's way to Conrail's Shared Assets trackage. I'm sure the crew wasn't too happy as... (more)