A secondhand SD90MAC leads priority intermodal train 213 past the impressive Jeffersonian architecture of the North Carolina Research Campus on a cloudless day in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
NS 213 with NS 7315 leading has a rolling meet with 204 under the old Southern Railway-era cantilever in Concord. The 7315 is just one of six active former-UP SD90MACs on the NS roster. The remain... (more)
NS 213 thunders through downtown Kings Mountain with NS 7315 leading. NS 7315 is just one of six active Former-UP SD90MACs remaining on the roster. The remaining units out of the 100 unit group ha... (more)
"Second Hand Foreigners"
I like these ex-UP SD9043's, but I can say I don't like them looking like this! NS bought a bunch of these UP units to rebuild them into SD70ACU's. Here run thru NS power is on this loaded eth... (more)
NS M35 gets underway, leaning in to the super elevated curve at Eufola, after dropping off a car that tripped the Defect Detector at the S29.1. The car was reading 218 degrees above ambient temper... (more)
A patched 90MAC poses as it sits tied down and loaded.
The U49 sits behind the Icehouse and will become 76M later today loaded at Wentz and will be on its way to SC.
I never tire of watching trains over Rockville Bridge. Here, NS 11R arrives Enola behind a pair of former Union Pacific "SD9043MACs". NS 7315 leads the yellow duo across the Susquehanna... (more)