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No day on the OSL in Idaho is complete without at least one shot from the Hill. The infamous hill known as Medbury Hill has stood as a long challenge for trains. It's a 1.5% climb for quite the distance from the Snake River valley below to the desert plateau standing above. At the top of the hill is CP 393 to CP392 which is a center siding known as Reverse, and for a very long time a set of timeless searchlight signals stood guard over this fabled section of railroad. This set now no longer stands, and all the remains is the photos of their glory and the stories they told. Not long after this photo was taken, would ground break on the new signal bridges and signals that would replace these, and from this moment onward time was running out. Here's CP 8810 leading then train MPCET with an entirely CP visitor line up as they thunder up the grade under a glorious beautiful Idaho January sunset.

On the afternoon of January 22nd, 2024, I had received news that FEC 105-22 would have the 2 repainted ES44C4s on point. After getting done with work around the house, I made the trip out to cocoa to see them. After arriving, I was greeted to a green signal thinking getting 105 would be quick. Nope. About a million brightline trainsets later and 105 got signals through cocoa. Around 450, 2 hours after I got there, FEC 10522 rounded the curve at a slow rate of speed. These units in my opinion are very nice looking. FEC 816s horn also sounded very nice. Taken 1/22/24.

On an overcast saturday, I find myself setup for the 11:50AM Brightline Departure from the Orlando Intl Airport. Within minutes of arriving, I see the Orlando wrapped trainset round the bend slowly. Leading the train is BLF SCB40 #121, sporting a nice Hybrid K5LA.

CP255 is lead by a SOO SD60 as it crosses Harbour Draw. The 255 departs from the NS in Buffalo, NY, it travels over the NS, CSX and CN before reaching home rails. In several hundred yards the train will cross the Niagara River into Canada.

CSX's Spirit of our First Responders leads I010-28 near Avilla, kicking up a cloud of snow as it races east.

An empty Texas Utilities coal train splits one of, if not the last set of intermediate searchlights to survive on the St. Joe Sub until they were replaced in 2022.

On a oddly warm December morning, a friend and I are headed out towards Bartow, FL to find ourselves the brand new FCEN GP15's in a brand new, fresh coat of SCL paint. As we pull in, we are greeted by the 2 GP15's, which honestly look so much better in person.

An empty Omaha Public Power District coal train snakes into the North Platte River Valley heading back to the Powder River Basin.

A Canadian National manifest is seen crawling through the town of Griffith, Indiana. Quite the lashup as well as there's 6 locomotives in total, 4 EMD, 2 GE's.

UP 5393 races southbound along the Albert Lea Sub leading MITPS as it approaches Northfield, MN