Just a catch along the way in one of many trips thru W-S.
Helper set entering the engine facility back when the yard was huge, coal trains were frequent and the skyline in the background was vastly different.
This unit is leading a Roanoke NRHS excursion which will turn here and head back home. The units in their bright new paint have started up the east leg of the wye, which once led to the Saltville... (more)
The "Bluefield Turn" is departing. This model preceded what was arguably the best 4-axle unit of the second generation of diesels. This is the business end and the front on NS. In tho... (more)
The "Bluefield Turn" is departing.
Sunset is about 45 minutes away as CPKC 121's outbound crew is setting CP 3015 off at the yard in Farnham. KCS 4794 at left is the leader and will soon back up to its train before it departs for M... (more)
A fast manifest hustles east on the former Nickel Plate Road Chicago-Fort Wayne mainline, while the daily local freight waits in the yard alongside a Speno train, on a very hot, hazy, and humid Au... (more)
N&W locomotives #4147 and #668 working the Wiscasset Mills yard that connects to the Winston-Salem Southbound Railroad mainline.
Blue And Gold. New England Central Railroad's (NECR) daily run between Willimantic, CT and Palmer, MA, Train 608, was passing through a nice rural scene in Monson, Massachusetts when it cro... (more)
Still seems odd that it was forty years ago this WB had an early repaint from NW in the lead. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.
NECR 608 passes northbound through the St. Edwards Cemetery in Stafford Springs.
NECR 608 passes the south through the UConn fields in Mansfield.
Cane 2 rounding the curve to the final stretch for the mill with 15 loads.
NECR 3857 and BPRR 3511 are the power for train 608 as it waits out a snowstorm in Willimantic.
CP 3015 in fairly fresh beaver paint leads G95 as it leaves Lachine IMS Yard for St-Luc Yard with CP 3099 trailing.