On those (rare) occasions when the Ann Arbor interchanged with Conrail here, it involved a steep climb up to and over North Main Street. Perhaps that's one reason they stopped doing it.

All gone! Visiting here now, you'd find yourself in a downtown shopping mall.

This brilliantly clean southbound Metrolink stands in stark contrast to the salt-air rusted ROW fence along the San Clemente beach.

Museums are good at preserving the rare stuff. Now, let's work on the common stuff -- which will be rare in a few years!

For now it's only rain impeding this eastbound empty grain train, soon to encounter early season snowfall while crossing Stevens Pass in the Cascades.

While others enjoy beautiful autumn foliage, coastal Washington gets morning fog. I guess the work on 90252's numberboards can wait until after another trip to Vancouver, BC. The power on this t... (more)

Having fought drifts around Windy Point, steam rotary plow OY now uses the rest of the afternoon to clear the yard and wye at Cumbres Summit. The photo line thanks the crew for directing the snow... (more)

If Boeing designers expand the dimensions of their new planes any more, BNSF is going to have to move the signal standards further back from the tracks to accommodate the containers used to ship t... (more)

Never mind the appearance of the locomotive, when there's high priority intermodal tonnage to move! Just hope a random photographer doesn't happen to catch it.

Quickly taking charge of a westbound CN freight on the main line, this crew will ride the rest of the way into Vancouver. Hope they had a good Canada Day the day before!

When I moved last year from Michigan to the Pacific Northwest, I thought my sightings of NS and CSX locomotives would become few and far between. Such appears not to be the case. Here, an NS Das... (more)

Nice day for a trip across the Cascades in a beautiful train, in this case a BNSF Officers' Special led by two sparkling GEVO's!

The Rutledge-Marion line had only three years to go when 1005 led this patrol north toward North English, Williamsburg, and the Amanas.

GP35s 386 and 388 usher the Ann Arbor's daily southbound freight down Osmer Hill into the road's namesake city. The AA proved it was possible to cross the state of Michigan while avoiding any cit... (more)

Topped off with a Hancock air whistle, MNCW 5024 sports the then-new silver and blue livery while wheeling an inbound commuter toward the Big Apple.