The sun has not quite come up yet on this very cold, December morning as VTR GP18 #801 stands ready to bring today's New York & Ogdensburg train down to the CSX interchange in Norwood.

Former Waccamaw Coast Line GP18 #943 leads a passenger excursion out of Conway on the Carolina Southern in what was better times for the railroad. This unit has since been scrapped, the Carolina S... (more)

New York, Susquehanna & Western GP18 class unit 1800 stands in front of the sanding tower in Binghamton, New York. The 1962 EMD, which is seen in new territory on the recently-acquired Northern Di... (more)

Visits to Lamberts Point, Virginia in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s usually were rewarded with veteran Alco locomotives of several types working around Norfolk & Western’s coal piers. Fir... (more)

A pair of freshly painted former Rock Island GP18s leads a sister unit on a Chicago Rail Link drag passing through Pullman Junction. Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

Two NYS&W units are seen from the platform of the old East Syracuse station.

Not many places can you still see an GP18 leading a main line freight. Even less so can you see one leading a road freight with a caboose and a while flag special. NHN takes pride in there heritag... (more)

An unexpected Friday afternoon southbound on the GNRR with their EMD 567 leading 24/3 freight. Marble chips are booming, with 23 loaded hoppers making up the majority of the train.

The Keolis Middleboro Extra drops off a set of equipment at the layover yard in Middleboro with MBTA 904.

NYS&W 1800 brings a single C&O/Chessie System RBL east across Midland Ave in Saddle Brook. Since a trainman is riding the front steps (anyone recognize him?) the crew may have some work to do in ... (more)

Boston & Maine GP18 1750, the first of six on the B&M roster, leads its train through the yard at East Deerfield, MA, while an Alco switcher works in the distance. I always liked the slant-nose pr... (more)

A combined road freight & grain empty is laying down sand & smoke for the small hill at Woodstock. With 8/2 freight and 35 empty CSX corn covered hoppers, even this mostly empty train gives the m... (more)