Backwaters

freight action, stacks; lead unit 4957, C44-9W; A BNSF intermodal train heads east along the Mississippi River near Galena Junction, Illinois; 16 October 2010; Steve Bauer; filed in BNSF folder… […]

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SEPTA says farewell to the AEM7s NEWSWIRE

Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority AEM-7 No. 2307 pushes a train away from Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station in September 2016. TRAINS: Steve Sweeney A close-up image of Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority… […]

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N&W 611 Test Run

…Ala., to Roanoke, Va. Steve Glischinski photo On the return leg of an Alexandria, Va.-Lynchburg, Va., excursion, No. 611 rolls north on the former Southern Railway main line at Arrowhead,… […]

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N&W Class J 611

…6, 1994, No. 611 rolls through Kings Mountain, N.C., on its final trip from Birmingham, Ala., to Roanoke, Va. Steve Glischinski photo On the return leg of an Alexandria, Va.-Lynchburg,… […]

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Big Boy braking power

Ten hoppers coupled to the Big Boy consist in January 2014 were used for additional braking power. Steve Sweeney Q Why was there a string of hopper cars in the… […]

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