2510 results for 2020; refer to date index:
2020-01-01January 1st, 2020
We started the year in Galveston, took the Bolivar Ferry, which is free and state-run in a place where socialism is anathema, and worked our way into Louisiana on the hunt more for crawfish than trains.
2020-01-02January 2nd, 2020
We left Lafayette in bad weather hunting more for crawfish than trains, which we found nearby, and set our sights on the streetrunning at Gretna on the New Orleans and Gulf Coast. There was trackwork near the streetrunning and nothing was running over it -- bad luck -- but we did find two working on the line.
2020-01-03January 3rd, 2020
We started the day at Pascagoula, Mississippi, catching a single CSX out the window of the hotel in torrential rain before going off to explore, and quickly find, the Mississippi Export Rail. We were lucky enough to catch it on the causeway near the company's shops in Moss Point before proceeding on to the port city of Mobile Alabama to check out another shortline, the Alabama Export, where we found two G&W units switching and a single pre-G&W painted unit elusively switching in a spot we simply couldn't shoot.
2020-01-04January 4th, 2020
A light train day as we headed south, stopping only briefly to shoot the parked power of the Florida Northern.
2020-01-05January 5th, 2020
Disney World.
2020-01-06January 6th, 2020
We traveled out to Port Canaveral to board the Disney Dream for a tour and caught one at Titusville on the return to our hotel.
2020-01-07January 7th, 2020
Disney World.
2020-01-08January 8th, 2020
Traveling from Orlando to Miami, we stopped at Port Salerno to see the spot where I started watching trains (unsuccessfully) up close as a kid. This time, we did catch one northbound.
2020-01-09January 9th, 2020
We explored Miami before boarding the Disney Magic for a five day cruise.
2020-01-10January 10th, 2020
At sea on the Disney Magic, we passed a fair amount of other shipping.
2020-01-11January 11th, 2020
Our first port of call was Key West, which is famous for once having been the end of the Florida East Coast's sea route, destroyed by a hurricane in the 1930s. In honour of this history, there are local tourist road trains in large numbers floating around the downtown.
2020-01-12January 12th, 2020
Our second port of call was Nassau in the Bahamas. Not too many trains, but being an island nation, there is plenty of shipping to go around.
2020-01-13January 13th, 2020
Like many cruise ship operators, Disney owns a private island in the Bahamas called Disney Castaway Cay, which offers some great views of the ship we are riding if you don't mind not seeing the bow.
2020-01-14January 14th, 2020
Our trip nearly over, we got off the ship in Miami and wandered north to Jacksonville, stopping only once for a train at West Palm Beach.
2020-01-15January 15th, 2020
Working northward, we stopped for gas and trains in Florence, South Carolina. The Amtrak station agent politely declined our request to shoot from the platform so we made do with looking through the fence.
2020-01-16January 16th, 2020
Working our way up the I-81, we happened upon a slow Winchester & Western northbound approaching Clear Brook, Virginia, right on the border with West Virginia, and caught it at the next exit -- 10 minutes later.
2020-01-17January 17th, 2020
We completed our 21-state tour of the US and returned to Canada, catching the Delaware-Lackawanna switching at Steamtown in Scranton and a northbound NYSW at Onativia Road near Lafayette, New York.
2020-02-25February 25th, 2020
Waiting for an Exo train from Montreal to St-Jerome, a QGRY northbound slipped by the station with BNSF and CP power.
2020-06-14June 14th, 2020
We went to Bretville Junction at the east end of Edmonton to see what we could find for a couple of hours. It did not disappoint.
2020-08-08August 8th, 2020
We stopped for three trains between Jasper and Hinton on our first (non-rail-oriented) tourist visit of the Rockies since moving out West.
2020-08-09August 9th, 2020
On our way into Jasper National Park to do some family touristing, we stopped at Jasper Lake to watch an eastbound intermodal across the water -- this time in decent light.
2020-10-03October 3rd, 2020
We traveled from Edmonton via the south side of Walker Yard, exploring toward Tofield and then Camrose, catching CN 142, 111, 347, 199, and 142 a second time on the Wainwright sub, and 114 coming up the Camrose sub.
2020-10-23October 23rd, 2020
Word got out about CN heritage GP40-3 on CN 356. I checked for it at Bretville Jct and worked west, finding it stopped at the 147th St crossing in Edmonton.
2020-12-29December 29th, 2020
We went to Vegreville to see the big egg, and chased 411 from Innisfree back to Vegreville catching it across sunset.
2020-12-30December 30th, 2020
We heard about CN's BC rail heritage unit leading CN 108 out of Jasper and ventured westward to see if we could catch it, getting CN 101 with two C40-8Ms, 310, and 773 at Carvel, CN 834, 108 with the heritage unit, and 180 in Marlboro, and 412 at Entwistle and again on the bridge over the 16 at Magnolia Bridge near Gainford.