A cut of cars gets shoved from "B-Yard" in Vancouver as the crew of the Lake Transfer awaits the track to clear.

An empty ethanol train bound for Mona, IA, works west on the Mason City Sub. The train is currently between Luana and Postville as it snakes around to follow the ridge lines to minimum grades in n... (more)

Out in northeast Iowa is a mountain of a grade on the Mason City Sub. The Calmar Hill is a 1.4% grade that runs for about 4 miles between Fort Atkinson and Calmar. The area is mostly inaccessible,... (more)

Empties heading back to the plant.

BN's class GP35 was GN's class GP35. No. 2500 leads a former CB&Q GP35 on a transfer headed towards Lyndale Yard Minneapolis' west side. The train is coming off the Mississippi River freight line ... (more)

On a sunny afternoon in Washington, BNSF 6698 leads H-EVEABN1 18A south with the famous Mt. Rainer in the distance.

As the morning sun peaks the emerald hills above Allard horseshoe, burning off a marine layer, a southbound Union Pacific intermodal from Brooklyn, Oregon slowly climbs the grade, in and out of th... (more)

A westbound Southern Pacific high-priority freight rumbles through Vail (Cienega Creek), Arizona, on April 22, 1990, led by EMD GP60 No. 9719. This train even trailed a Southern Pacific Railroad P... (more)

Southern Pacific Railroad Police caboose No. 4709 rolls west on the rear of a SP freight at Vail (Cienega Creek), Arizona, on April 22, 1990. SP had several of these cars that were used by special... (more)

It's the CNW. Really! Soo Line 6607 leads a southbound coal train on CNW's New Line at Bain (Kenosha), WI in November of 1989, while a northbound freight, let by FRVR 2402 waits in the siding. It'... (more)

Two DPUs push their stack train south up the Tehachapi's under moody winter skies. The lead units are already up and around the curve into Cliff as the DPUs are approaching tunnel 3 in Bealville a... (more)

The Heart Of Georgia's Vidalia Turn wakes up the small sleepy central Georgia town of Ailey shortly before midnight on it's return trip back west with the Stack Train. This former Seaboard Air Li... (more)

A Phoenix to Belen manifest train navigates its way through the twist and turns of Cosnino with the San Francisco peaks in the background.

A Roger Puta Photograph