Super Fleet
On the very first run of Super Fleet GP60Ms, the Santa Fe QNYLA train speeds through Ransom, Illinois, on May 20, 1990. Only two GP60Ms were delivered by EMD at this point (N... (more)

A typical winter day in Montana: Big skies, frigidly cold, impressive mountains looming on the horizon, and a wind-scoured landscape with drifts of snow piled in the lee of every contour. Throug... (more)

Pass the marshmallows
Southern Pacific loaded coke train NSGVC descends Tennessee Pass at Pando, Colorado. The trailing NS C30-7 gasps for air in the high-altitude with spectacular resu... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Polson Local heads north at M.P. 16, south of Ronan, Montana, at sunrise on September 23, 2008, with the magnificent Mission Mountains providing the backdrop. A lone cow walk... (more)

Two Toledo, Peoria and Western trains pause at the Farmdale trestle near East Peoria, Illinois. Above is the the Effner Local with GP38-2s Nos. 2002 and 2008, passing over the Morton Switcher with... (more)

UP's potash local is about to enter scenic Bootlegger Canyon near Moab, Utah.

Desert pit stop
The westbound fuel tracks are full on the night of May 22, 1991, as three Santa Fe trains pause at Belen, New Mexico, for a quick servicing and a new crew. Soon, the tra... (more)

In the early 1990’s, Southern Pacific finally made it to Chicago by acquiring the bankrupt Chicago, Missouri and Western’s St. Louis to Chicago line and through trackage rights via BN. To adve... (more)

Union Pacific's executive passenger train pulled by a A-B-A set of E-Units curves through Tunnel 29 and smokes its way toward Pinecliffe, Colorado.

Train of the FCAB from Antofagasta to Bolivia is rolling on a dam through Salarde Ascotan. The boxcars are from the bolivian Ferrocarril Central Andina (FCA) or the FCAB, locomotives GR12 2404 and... (more)

Curving through the Badlands
BN SD60M No. 9259 leads an eastbound coal train at Sully Springs, North Dakota.

Five brand-new Chicago and North Western GE Dash-9s line up with coal trains bound for loading in Powder River Basin. Downtown Bill, Wyoming.

A trio of Santa Fe GP60s (in two flavors; GP60 and GP60M) head a westbound intermodal through Abo Canyon, New Mexico. I remember many times I’d be disappointed because I didn’t get an all-Supe... (more)

Canadian Pacific Railway's steel-wheel light crude oil pipeline continues to roll from the Bakken fields in the Dakotas to distribution at the Global Partners LLC Terminal in Albany, NY. The CP 6... (more)

Kolhapur bound Koyana express between Adarki and Salpa.