Buckingham Branch Locomotives 8 and 3 rest during evenings sunset on the Buckingham Branch yard in Doswell Virginia, waiting for their next job assignment.

"Switching Spring Mill"

While out in the central PA area to shoot trains on the NS Pittsburgh Line, I had planned to spend some time documenting the local railroads around the ar... (more)

BB 8 is tied down in the yard and the Squashapenny Junction Antiques store is closed on Christmas Day.

Three Buckingham Branch GP16 diesel-electric locomotives are seen tied down at Doswell yard on Christmas Day. All three units were originally built as EMD GP7 road switchers for the Atlantic Coas... (more)

ex SBD 4620, nee SCL 4620

Yorkrail GP16 1734 rolls by the grade crossing at Nashville, PA.

The track and concrete footprint are all that remain of the RJ Corman locomotive shop in Guthrie, KY after being destroyed by fire on 10/5/2014. The 3 locomotives are still in the same spot they ... (more)

Another "facelift" unit has invaded the area once reserved for interesting stuff.

The forces of the renumbering have not yet gotten to this unit which is showing the effects of six years of rugged service.

This westbound Yorkrail freight meets a CF7 at the quarry in Thomasville, PA.

A very recent patch job working the Gulf Coast at one of my favorite southern locations, not too busy and lots of roads showed up here.

Though not a really great rebuild the 16s were at least consistent in looks and features. This is an early renumber job with another of the early CSX rainbow units.

The Denver Rock Island Railroad’s GP7 ‘Galloping Gray Ghost’ works the sidings in an industrial area along I-70 in Denver.

A frigid Saturday morning finds the ND&W working east out of Okolona. Notice the severe lean of the train, a sign of the rough track conditions that plague this stretch of shortline railroading.

SCL In its latter days took a bunch of incredibly ratty old GP7s and 9s, chopped the nose and cleaned them up a little and turned out a model that became almost as iconic on shortlines as the ATSF... (more)