2579 sings through Belmont with a beautiful K5LA hooked up to a manual valve. This is the second time in three days that 213 has had a standard cab leading.
Thanks to a heads up from a friend and actually getting off of work early for once, I decided I'd take advantage of the beautiful weather and shoot these old signals again before they're gone for ... (more)
Standard cab goodness? In recent light of NS announcing that they are going to start sending the SD70's to Progress Rail get rebuilt. I want to try and get as many of these an I can before they ar... (more)
NS SD70 #2579 leads northbound Norfolk Southern empty ethanol train #65Q through the Industrial Boulevard grade crossing at CP "Walnut", milepost 42 of NS's Atlanta North District, in Da... (more)
NS SD70 #2579 leads northbound Norfolk Southern empty ethanol train #65Q through the Little Road grade crossing just north of CP "Talley", milepost 57 of NS's Atlanta North District, app... (more)
The empty Bow Coal trains rolls to a stop on the siding where it will wait for nearly two hours for CP 253 to roll north. At the time CP 253 was just departing Oneonta.
A former Conrail SD70 leads an empty Bow coal train across the Hoosic River. NS 2579 was assembled at Conrail's Juniata Locomotive Shop from kits supplied by EMD as CR 2579, among the last engines... (more)