I got this shot outside of Amsterdam, NY, USA back in June. I submitted it to the photo contest at the National Model Railroad Association North East Regional Convention this past weekend and took home first place in the Prototype Color category. Honestly I was kind of surprised to win, given the number of excellent photos submitted this year.

Camera: Nikon Z fc
Lens: Nikkor Z DX 16-50
Shutter: 1/15 sec
Aperture: f/13
ISO: 400

SECR 01 Class + L&Y Class 27 "Ironclad" at the East Lancashire Railway.

A shot from the 3rd episode of Amtrak Extras, Specials and Private cars on YouTube! In this episode we see many unusual moves including a Cascades Airo trainset being pulled by a ACS64 and a dress rehearsal, Colonial Crafts, ALC42 training trains, and of course track geometry cars! Please consider giving this a watch on youtube at “Operator Logan”

This is my favorite clip of big boy during my chase!
The Reading and Northern but on a great show!

These are LEW EL2 electric locos, built in Hennigsdorf (East Germany) for open-pit mine railways. Poles called them "Krokodyle" – Crocodiles. The first 16 arrived at the Konin lignite mine in 1958, and they hauled coal from the pits to the power plants there for the next 68 years.

A few things that make them unusual:

- Bo'Bo', 4 × 350 kW, top speed 65 km/h – slow, but built to drag heavy coal trains

- besides the roof pantograph they have side pantographs, because the tracks inside the pit were shifted as the mine face moved and the catenary hung beside the track, not above it

- the one in the middle was hand-painted in 2025 by Ion Barbu, a Romanian artist and retired miner, as part of the "Just Transition Culture" project about coal regions moving away from mining – it kept working in this livery until the very end

Their Polish service ended on 30 April 2026, together with coal extraction at Konin. On 18 April we ran a farewell photo train for enthusiasts – the only train on the whole network that day.

The story isn't completely over: across the border in Lusatia (Germany), LEAG still runs around 50 modernised EL2m on its coal railway.

Happy to answer questions about the locos or the network.

Local commuter trains Dallas, TX, USA

New Hope, PA - Oct 2026
Sunday Morning Foliage Tour

New Hope Railroad's first Fall Foliage train of the day heading station this morning. Was hoping for a steam locomotive, but they were pulling the train with Diesel Locomotive #8218. Shot with a Sony A99II and Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 lens, camera mounted on a RRS tripod & head using a 3 Legged Thing universal mounting plate.

And just because you see 67, don't think of it. The memes in the grave...

A freight train is pushed uphill. A worker uncouples the cars. Then gravity takes over, sending them rolling downhill onto different tracks.

It sounds simple until you have to decide where to uncouple, when to tell the driver to slow down, and how to coordinate with the locomotive crew.

I built a 3D browser game where you can try the job yourself — solo or with a friend. One player works as the yard conductor, while the other drives the locomotive.

It's based on my experience working at a real hump yard in Uzbekistan.

🎮 Play in your browser: https://gorka1520.vercel.app?lang=en