An unusual power combo and consist. 51R is usually a grain train but today it had coal emptys on the front. The standard cab is common power for grain trains but this one had the Reading Heritage ... (more)

NS 430 sits at Pontoon Road, waiting for its call to head south many hours later in the day.

Two DPUs on NS empty coal train 431 prepare to push northbound out of Granite City. The NKP heritage unit, NS 8100, is the interior DPU. This train actually sported two heritage units: the Nickel ... (more)

On a clear and sunny Thanksgiving Day morning, NS 9708 leads UP 8626 and Southern Pacific heritage unit UP 1996. Train 211 is on its way back to Atlanta a day after coming in to NJ. Its a rare sig... (more)

The returning SP Heritage unit was the trailing locomotive on the three-unit consist of NS 211 on Thanksgiving Day as seen with NS C40-9W 9708, UP SD70ACe 8628 and the UP 1996...

On Thanksgiving Day, a late Amtrak Coast Starlight train comes flying along the UP Sacramento Subdivision just north of Del Paso. Usually, this train passes through here at night, but do to the de... (more)

Coming across UP 1982 working as the DPU of a westbound stack train was a nice surprise. Here it's seen resting from its labors as it waits out congestion due to a tie replacement project up ahea... (more)

On a brisk winter morning in Davis, California, Union Pacific 1982 pushes an intermodal train east along the Cal-P corridor. On this section of the line, the tracks pass right through a wildlife r... (more)

Luckily, the heritage unit trails. At first, I was a little disappointed that the Penn Central heritage unit (NS 1073) was third out on this loaded grain train. Not long after this shot was... (more)

Westbound coal empties head over the Meramec River on a late summer afternoon. Soon the trees will be turning color here, but with the brutal summer we have had, that color will probably be brown.... (more)

The Operation Lifesaver train flies through East Davis as it makes it's way towards Roseville on the high speed Cal-P corridor. Work crews have been removing the dead grass along the tracks for fi... (more)

Pick Your Road. Union Pacific 1983 leads the "Family Days" special down the Roseville Subdivision right next to Interstate 80. Often trains will fly by the cars which are stopped due to hea... (more)

On a cold Christmas Night, Amtrak 145 pushes the Auburn bound Capitol Corridor train into its station stop at Davis, CA.

Nice looking all EMD consist cruising through the rolling hills in southwest Kansas. The SP 1996 was a nice added bonus.