Tough winter day on the Kyle—22
“Whoa,… whoa,… WHOA!,� rings out over the scanner as we pass the Kyle plow extra going through Kanorado, Kansas, on January 2, 2007. I look bac... (more)

The flanger works Eastbound on the #1 track.

BNSF coal empty goes over multiple humps as it works its way northwest to Wichita Falls.

The ArcelorMittal Quebec Cartier Mining Corporation's weekly employee passenger train from Port Cartier to Mount Wright, Quebec, to service all of the online camps and the Fire Lake raw ore mine a... (more)

Night time cab shot of a fairly new UP SD70M. Thanks to the friendly crew for allowing this quick shot.

The hogger of a switch move powered by an old #4420 I1s waits for a hand signal from the man riding the rear end, probably breaking apart an arriving westbound. No radios being used here. John n... (more)

Amtrak's northbound Pacific Surflinerer to San Luis Obispo crosses over the Gaviota Trestle on a beautiful summer evening.

Former CRR

In 1946 four 25 year old F-19 C&O Pacifics were converted by the C&O to class L-1 Hudsons (490-493). They were modernized with new cast frames, Poppet valves, roller bearings on all axles, the lat... (more)

"AFTERNOON DELIGHT" NS955, chased but never subdued, slips past the ruins of Chapman's Mill in Thoroughfare Gap, VA, about mp 14 on the NS B-Line at 3:20pm on 4/10/07 The mill was built in 1742 an... (more)

The California Zephyr shines in the last sunlight of the day, highballing eastbound thru fall color in a Rocky Mountain valley.

FSRR 4421 northbound at Encinar SC, the 'new' (1985) line to overcome the Sierra Madre from Veracruz to Mexico City. FCM 1012 stands as a monument to former electrified section of this railroad, a... (more)

All four of the first group of Norfolk Southern's "heritage" SD70ACe's are seen here outside the Progress plant in Muncie. A few minutes later, everything will get a good "spring shower". From lef... (more)

Two of SP's Daylight-painted diesels, SD45R 7399 and SD40E 7342, help the 4449 as it climbs to Bealville.

Westbound BNSF mixed freight train framed by the wooden overpass at Home Valley, Washington. The overpass connects state highway 14 with a campground along the Columbia River. Originally built as ... (more)