Railcat System

05/25/2026

More than just a day off. 🇺🇸🙏
After having my car in a Memorial Day car show at The Windmill Farm and Craft Market in Penn Yan, NY (where I had my train shop for 10 years). I stopped out to the Iron Skillet restaurant. They had this nice setup there.

05/21/2026

After yesterday’s B23-7s, we are back to the GP38-2s. 5/21/2026 🚂

05/20/2026

Second video today was at Martisco Station 5/20/2026. Made it from Skaneateles Junction to Martisco Station with only a couple of minutes to spare! Usually the GP 38-2 locomotives do the honors on the Geneva to Solvay, NY run but today we have three B23-7 locomotives! FGLK 1989 and 1943 are former Conrail locomotives still in blue paint. FGLK 2304 is former Southern 4016. The big building to the right was a former bean factory. One set of tracks went inside and another set ran along the side. The bean factory sued Conrail when their tracks were removed. Conrail removed several sidings on this line and put the line Out Of Service with the intent to have the line removed all the way back to Geneva, NY. For some reason Conrail was not allowed to tear up the line and so they put the “Geneva Cluster” up for sale. The NYS&W had the high bid on this line but Conrail would not sell it to them and went with the lower bid to FGLK. I will have to find my newspaper article on this and post it at a later date. Thank you to Jason Butterfield for letting me know that these units would be leading the train. 😺

05/20/2026

First video today was at Skaneateles Junction 5/20/2026. Usually the GP 38-2 locomotives do the honors on the Geneva to Solvay, NY run but today we have three B23-7 locomotives! FGLK 1989 and 1943 are former Conrail locomotives still in blue paint. FGLK 2304 is former Southern 4016. Thank you to Jason Butterfield for letting me know that these units would be leading the train. 😺

05/15/2026

Even though it is a few years away, I am looking forward to some hiking! 😺

05/14/2026

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway 22603 looking great with no graffiti 5/14/2026. CMO was leased by the Chicago and North Western (Now part of the Union Pacific). Union Pacific uses this and other reporting marks so as not to fill up all the numbers under the UP reporting mark. If the UP takeover of Norfolk Southern happens, I am sure that UP will use the NS reporting mark for a long time. 🚂

05/12/2026

51 cars on this eastbound FGLK 5/12/26.

05/06/2026

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05/05/2026

In Seneca Falls, NY by a park that the FGLK (former NYC/PC/CR) runs by is a “tombstone type” whistle post. Not the normal style that I am used to seeing on this line. It looks quite old and perhaps it predated the usual style? 😺