CR 3375

Westbound CR ballast train at CP367

MAIL4 EB

I liked to shoot across the field, as I liked the angle that showed the power from the side, as well as the train. Sometimes a head on shot worked well too, such as this view of OIBU bearing down on Miller Beach Rd.

CR-3375+3227 at CP-207 Elyrka OH 12-13-1996

BUOI is on the upper track #1 as it passes the semaphore on track #2. Track #1 is long gone and so is the semaphore.

Before NYSW & Guilford teamed up to run the Sealand stack tranns, CR ran them for a short time. An Eastbound Sealand train is passing a Westbound Guilford detour train at PR.

Eastbound rolls through Effingham on the busy Conrail line from St.Louis to Indianapolis.

Eastbound Conrail manifest crosses the still double track IC diamond in Effingham.

I'm going to have to look up the correct date of this wreck one of these days. I really have no idea what it is, other than that it was early 1993, as confirmed by the just-blooming trees in the background. I took this shot during the aftermath and cleanup of a major wreck in Utica, NY involving a loaded stack train headed by G.E. Dash 8s. The Dash 8s are gone by this point, with the smashed well cars and containers bulldozed to the side, and one track has been reopened, letting these GP40-2s through, rare even by 1993 standards. The wreck, according to the news reports, was deliberately caused by a group of teenagers, who were subsequently arrested for the crime, but the results of the case were kept secret because of their ages. One person, perhaps not the smartest person in the world, blamed it on the railroad, saying something along the lines of "I don't know why they put the railroad so close to the housing development." The housing development where the teenagers came from dated to the 1960s, the railroad to the 1830s.

TVLA is on the advertised as it approaches the Fox Ridge crossing

The hard part of the journey is over and now its downhill and track speed as TV-1 does its best to rattle the windows in Lily, PA

Two CR GP40-2 and Two SD40-2's are shoving hard on the rear of this unit train.