Getting BCOL barns to lead on CN is getting harder to do now days with PTC in service and all the new AC's the CN took delivery of. The CN looks like they maybe doing away with these unique GE loc... (more)

BCOL 4602 leads Q149 west past the old GTW g-heads in Merrillville.

BCOL 4625 (CN 4625) leads a colorful consist south on a sand train that originated in Poskin, WI near Barron. The fourth unit is an SW1500 owned by the sand plant, likely headed to Stevens Point f... (more)

Nearing days last light, train 406 rounds the bend, popping out into the sunlight.

With an uncommon BC Rail painted C40-8M leading, CSX manifest freight Q635 heads through Bergen, New York, catching the last bit of fading light on a winter evening. This was one of only a few BC ... (more)

A trio of aging Canadian National GE's bring CSX ethanol train K421 up the grade past Kennesaw Mountain on a hot summer morning.

With mismatching number boards, BCOL 4620 hustles a small train 406, by the old train station in Rothesay, New Brunswick. It's a requirement for me to get out and shoot as many of these cowls as p... (more)

CN M303 arrives at Armstrong with a classic leader

One of CN's C40-8M Draper Tapers leads U714 as it crosses over Elbow Creek just south of Iron Junction. The train is made up of empty Difco side dump cars used for hauling limestone and is heading... (more)

A loaded grain train out of Ida Grove, IA, in far western Iowa drops downgrade into Cedar Falls. Couple cowl units and a lessor GECX power this loaded grain train that is bound for the Gulf. In 1... (more)

CN M323 crawls across the Alburg Trestle, with a vulnerable GE 8-40CM at the helm. Since this fall, CN has begun storing these iconic "Cowl" units, as traffic levels allow.

Today's CN 451 hits the Domtar Road crossing at Mile 141 CN Newmarket Sub (Martins). The lighting wasn't anything to write home about, but when you see a rare matched set of cowls these days you t... (more)

U74581-21 is pulled down the the yard board and waiting to mark up with the Desk 12 RTC to get an authority to depart Gladstone.

An increasingly-rare BCOL cowl body Dash-8 leads K428 Charlotte ethanol empties through the Pikeville cut shortly after sunrise on a muggy summer morning.