2TE10M diesel engine goes with VL60 AC electric locomotive and freight train

UP 1989 leads the Denver North Yard to Pueblo manifest south into Palmer Lake on former Rio Grande trackage, after a brief stop for a northbound BNSF manifest. This is the second UP Heritage Unit... (more)

Buffalo & Pittsburgh GP40 number 2030 works hard as it leads Rochester & Southern train BL-1 through the woods in Scottsville, NY.

As the detours approach their sunset days on the Vermont Railroad, a gaggle of New York plate weekend fans pace a northbound 16R freight alongside Dunham Road as engineer Hal T Raven watched the s... (more)

I never understood why British railfans liked these until I found one moving about Cardiff. The smoke would put any Alco and many steamers to shame.

Cresting a hill near Whitewood, a 3-pack of 40s are on the head end of the Belle Job. To make matters better, the lead engine was a heck of a smoker on even the slightest hill. This chase allowed ... (more)

METX 107 leads an outbound train approaching bumper car crossing after making a station stop in Elmwood Park.

An Indiana Harbor Belt hump job is working hard on the west of the railroads yard in Blue Island, Illinois. In the lead is an SD20, smoking it up along with an SW1500 and yard slug.

Central Illinois Switcher heads to BNSF Ashland Yard with scrap steel loads. The 1206 was recently painted in Burlington inspired scheme.

A westbound Susquehanna haulage train exercises trackage rights on Conrail’s Southern Tier line to move tonnage between its Southern and Northern Divisions. This was the only time that I recall ... (more)

A southbound Great Western train high highballs Davis Creek, California on the Lake County Railroad. The train is operating on the old Southern Pacific Lakeview Branch, which had been sold to Lak... (more)

A pair of Albany and Eastern GE B40-8s switch Weyerhaeuser’s Santiam Lumber mill south of Lebanon, Oregon, on the AERC’s Sweet Home branch on September 26, 2016. The train is powered by two GE... (more)

Eastbound CSXT Manifest on the former C&O about to enter Russell Yard Terminal

On a clear summer morning, a Great Western train accelerates out of a slow order on the Lake County Railroad. The train was approximately seven miles south of Lakeview, Oregon.

The hamlet of Davis Creek, California is the apex of a southbound grade on the Lake County Railroad, as trains climb away from Goose Lake. Less than three months after the line was acquired from ... (more)