After backing into the UP Fife Yard, the "Mountain Job" is tied down for Sunday, and will run Monday Instead.

Cumbres & Toltec K-27 No. 463, masquerading as Rio Grande Southern No. 455, poses on Ferguson's Trestle. Lighting by Mike Shade and Mother Nature. This was the second day of a Friends of the Cum... (more)

A road-weary GP30 stands in the Soo Line’s servicing area in Gladstone, Michigan. The EMD went to Wisconsin Central before being retired in 1994.

With camera sitting on the westward track eastbound train 214 runs against the current of traffic coming through Wyocena while we're stopped on the eastward track about a mile east of his location... (more)

BNSF 8090 pays its respects to GN 599, the last SD9 acquired by GN back in 1958. GN 599 is in the process of being cosmetically restored and will be on permanent display in Skykomish near the depo... (more)

After an approximate 2 hour delay, the highly anticipated dimensional move is now underway reversing to the main line at Alma St. These 2 520 ton steam generators will be forwarded to CN at Georeg... (more)

The ex-Clinchfield's famed Copper Creek Viaduct provides a rippled reflection in Clinch River as the pushers on eastbound coal drag 722 approach the ex-Southern's much less impressive crossing of ... (more)

For a winter or two, the norm was for the spreader to load the #1 track with snow and let the flangers have some fun. On this February day the spreader has done its job and the 604 is nose plowi... (more)

I was on assigned to Sunnyside yard and worked a few midnight shifts in the summer of 2006. Imagine my surprise to find a sign painted on the brick of a building for Pullman Porter sign out. I fe... (more)

An interesting lash-up of EMD locomotives pulls this afternoon's Canon City local train out of the yard at Pueblo as it heads for the massive H... (more)

A MoPac caboose brings up the rear of a northbound empty hopper train at Smiley, Virginia. The cab was utilized to aid in negotiating Hagans Switchback.

U48's motive power has kicked the cab into Bruton Siding on the east side of Norton. A brakeman rides the back porch to control the cab's movement via the hand brake. The roving brakeman rides in ... (more)

A spiffy former ATSF rebuild works the Kinder Morgan Willbridge Terminal in NW Portland. Starting this month, the dash-3 upgraded units have been showing up around the north western US, including ... (more)

Westbound intermodal NS 233 crosses the Ohio River Bridge at Kenova on the ex N&W mainline heading towards Norfolk Southern's Chicago Intermodal Terminal at Landers Yard with the NS "Honoring... (more)