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Had the chance to spend the morning shooting on Monday, it was a fiery sunrise at Winterton in Norfolk

An NS westbound hotshot thunders through Millersburg, IN, a quiet town that once had 4 rail lines intersect.

On a sunny summer afternoon, Amtrak's auto train soars above the Neabsco creek marina, just beginning their trip to Florida. For the past hour, the BB desk dispatcher has been hustling CSX trains out of their way, ensuring they get the highball all the way through his territory. Freight roads and passenger roads don't always coexist easy, but the auto train is pretty 'hot' in railroad parlance, and not much slows the down or gets in their way.

Columbus to Worcester Intermodal Q022 screams around the curve at CP 60 in Spencer, MA.

NS 201 races on the relatively level track near Glenvar, VA making tracks towards Bristol with a NS-UP cheeseburger lashup.

We went for VIA but got surprised random ahhhh WL leader lol

Mono version of an earlier shot. Finally happy with this one now!

Olivia visited my studio one day. Managed to snap this one. Just framed and resized. No post processing

ATSF trailers roll eastbound at speed near Coal City, IL.

We went for VIA but got surprised random ahhhh WL leader lol

Flying along the CP Tomah subdivision with a loaded train of ballast, CP 5936 and 6067 venture west towards Portage where they will pick up a new crew. Besides the highlight of older power being used on these ballast trains, the faded dual flag scheme still looks great on the mainline

We went for VIA but got surprised random ahhhh WL leader lol

A tardy Pan Am Southern intermodal train 22K with four horses blows through the Route 68 crossing and past the mile marker at 355 in Royalston MA on a cold chilly morning. The train still has 20+ miles to go before reaching its final destination in Ayer. Luckily, the predicted clouds have yet to materialize.

A better look at the dioramas we had at the show last weekend. :) Still one more to shoot, just waiting on stickers. Coming from Charleston, SC, so I am not holding my breath on them getting here any time soon.

Pacing along side, Q042 glides past the grainery on the outskirts of Columbus Grove with about a mile of intermodal traffic from the southern states behind a matching pair of CSX ES44DCs.

Classic O. Winston Link photograph on the Norfolk & Western.

A year ago the hotshot routinely had three units and in this case four. The GP38-2 is probably a switcher from the Tadanac yard heading out for maintenance.

We went for VIA but got surprised random ahhhh WL leader lol

BCOL 4617, and GECX 7353 lead 198 cars on Q14891 27 through Brantford on a dull late December morning

Seaton Sluice harbour Northumberland.

Early on a September evening, Southern Pacific's LABRF rolls along the dry Williamson River near Calimus, Oregon. The Los Angeles to BRooklyn (SE Portland) Forwarder was the hottest train on SP's Oregon Division.

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The hotshot pulled into Castlegar in the late afternoon rather than the usual morning arrival. In the video they are backing the cars into the yard to be taken to Teck Cominco by the Tadanac switcher. The hotshot returned to Nelson with outgoing freight.

LI 503, direct express from Oyster Bay to Penn Station. Engine 501, Glen Cove, NY

Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus)

Driving back after Aldeburgh there was some lovely light, this cottage was just off a little byway near Sibton.

And, according to the color in this photograph, it's also 1978.

CPKC’s new daily northbound intermodal, 181, seems to be seeing mild success, with the train I shot on 5/20 being all of 20 cars long with two KCSM GEVOs on the point

With a Union Pacific motor fourth in line, a Saturday evening hotshot storms west from Higgins, Texas at 6:55 on March 30th, 2024.

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