OOPS! In 40 years of being around the tracks on almost a daily basis, I've never seen an underframe break like this. The Car Dept knows for sure the knuckles on this one are good!

As the 212 passed us, the smell of brakeshoe smoke washed over us and reminded me to turn around and get the going away shot. I was rewarded with a nice glint shot showing off the steam from the ... (more)

Just minutes after sunrise, the PRS came down the hill to Dock 6 in Duluth with DM&IR 212 in the lead. As he reached the dock, we heard the dock foreman tell him he had a big oil leak. The 212 w... (more)

One of my goals on this trip was to get some good silhoutte shots. While standing on the other side BS'ing with the engineer, I realized the silhoutte shot of the trip was rapidly fading away. I... (more)

The hogger notches em out after getting the light at Haire, WY and the matched set of 4 C30's belches out a cloud of black smoke and flame as they get a roll on 110 loaded hopper cars.

The Cotton Belt 819 was noted in the early 90's for its runs during the Tyler Rose Festival. Before dawn on what turned out to be a miserable gloomy day, she sits at the modest engine facility at... (more)

The ComEd Plaines empties heading back to the mines were a fixture in late afternoon in Coal City. The train has just cleared the 10mph diamond at Pequot and the engineer is doing his best to get... (more)

Day Gas winding along the Clark Fork east of Perma.

Pan shot of MRL 652 accelerating away from Dixon.

A mixed bag of power leads a shooter east at the entrance to Abo Canyon.

An empty hopper train heads for the refinery at Roseport for another load of petroleum coke evenually destined for the Indiana Railroad. The ex-SOO Line INRD SD60's are in old home territory here... (more)

There is some rugged scenery in the Twin Ports area. Just a few minutes away from a crew change at Pokegama Yard, a hot CN southbound descends Steelton Hill.

Warbonnets lead the Stack Richmond (CA) - Dallas over the Trinity River bridge. This scene is completely changed now, as the Dallas Sub was sold to DART before the BNSF merger and a new concrete b... (more)

Westbound stacks cross Two Medicine Bridge and pass the Most Photographed Barn In Montana with fall colors still present, despite the snow cover.

Two of the three helper sets assigned to Essex rest in the afternoon sun. Those gray boxes on the front are the Helper Link which allows the helpers to cut off on the fly without having to stop t... (more)