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Top Ten of 2017. With 2017 in the books, here's a look back at my Top 10 favorite shots from the past year.
10. A major factor in choosing a location to view the total sola... (more)

A cold empty coke train is working its way south on the Buffalo and Pittsburgh railroad. These coke trains will continue to run across the line until the lakes thaw.

U58 brings tidewater loads over the crest of Raitt Mountain, passing the signal at Virginia Lee, where a siding used to end. The Southern Pacific Heritage Unit, which has hung around the Buchanan ... (more)

Under a fiery sunrise, the signal at the west end of Amherst is lit for CN Q120's arrival, who are a few miles away.

823 passes through the CPL signal governing the Vansant interlocking, where the Prater Creek Branch used to join the Buc Main.

Metra MP36PH-3C #425, painted and lettered for retired CEO Don Orseno makes a station stop at Oak Forest Illinois

As a couple of BNSF westbounds wait for a light to proceed to Argentine Yard, an eastbound vehicle train departs for Chicago. At far left, a CP transfer freight approaches with an SD40-2F" re... (more)

A UP powered high-priority stack train heads eastbound through rural northern Missouri, near the small town of Baring, on the BNSF Transcon.

NS 23Z, a westbound intermodal train bound for 63rd Street Yard in Chicago, passes under the old Pennsy signal bridge in Fostoria, PA. The shadows are lengthening as the sun falls towards the hor... (more)

A pair of RJ Corman SD40-2 variants shove two freight cars off the siding at the Keating control point.

Locomotives:
RJC 3478 SD40-2
RJC 8336 SD40T-2

With a heavy set in the brakes and the dynamics going, this engineer eases this Kansas City bound 474 down the 1.8% Rutledge Hill. This beast is over 17,000 tons and 8600 feet long, and has 1x1 DP... (more)

A loaded Muscatine coal train pulls into the CP Ottumwa Yard. The BNSF crew out of Creston will pull the train down the main for the outbound CP crew. The train will change directions to go to Mus... (more)

A favorite ex-C&O spot on the Big Sandy is the crossovers at Dawkins, few miles south of Paintsville. Pretty easy spot to get into and shoot both directions. Here an eastbound empty coal train is ... (more)