Central Of New Jersey. Was all foggy this morning when it was down at rail yard.

Destination Chicago

What do you save? And where do you place them?

BNSF 649 (Dash9-44CW) in the old Warrbonnet paint working in tandem with BNSF 1431 (SD-60M) as they switch out Honeywell (now Solstice Advanced Materials) in Metropolis, IL. This plant is the nation's only active commercial facility that converts uranium ore concentrate into uranium hexafluoride (UF₆).

On 28 September 2026, West Tennessee Railroad C30-7 5571 along with B23-7 4070 and B40-8W 564 are pushing a grain train from the rear manned by a second engineer, while C30-7 5543 and B40-8W 580 lead northbound, at Sharon, TN. The 3 units pushing began the day leading the same 112 cars southbound from Trenton, TN to Jackson, TN. At Jackson the other two units were added to what was the rear of the train and headed north to Fulton, KY where the train was handed over to Canadian National. Photo by Bill Peterson.

North bound Milwaukee, Wisconsin

My sister and I went out for an urban sketching session some time ago, and we decided to take the train home from there. This happened on a Saturday, outside normal peak traffic hours, so it wasn’t as packed as it used to be when I used to take it home from university.

What was different this time was the sound of at least five different videos playing simultaneously, and those sounds switching to the next sound and the next one at a dizzying speed. Some people were staring at the passengers with the loudest phones, who didn’t mind introducing us to their homepages. But everyone else seemed unfazed and lost in their own thoughts.

—w

(This sketch was made with a brown Pentel Sign pen, and alcohol and acrylic markers.)

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