ROBERT A. SHOOK has captured this SD60 on the point of an NS 537 hopper train at RADEBAUGH, PA.  NS 6723 is reportedly one of only two such wide body units still in CONRAIL BLUE paint.      

    Nashville’s Music City Star posts June ridership record   For the third time in 2011, the Regional Transportation Authority’s (RTA) Music City Star in Nashville set a single-month ridership record. In June, ridership jumped 53 percent to 26,989 compared with June 2010’s 17,620. Ridership on all RTA services grew 42 percent for the month, [...]

  That’s what ROBERT A. SHOOK labeled this shot of a THREE-WAY MEET among two moving CSX freights and a Wheeling & Lake Erie train.  The location is Sodem, PA along I-70.  Not  ’dumb luck,’ ROBERT!  We say you were ‘in the right place at the right time.’    

    Amtrak Cascades surpassed ridership records in second quarter     Amtrak Cascades surpassed monthly and quarterly ridership records in the second quarter after a trying first quarter, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) officials said in a prepared statement. Ridership in April, May and June between Vancouver, British Columbia, and Eugene, Ore., soared 8 [...]