The NS office car train sleeps the night away in Elkhart yard but will head back east first thing in the morning. Thanks to my friend Mike for the idea of getting up on the roof of his van to get... (more)

An empty OCS waits at the Elkhart yard fuel pad for a fresh crew to take the train on to Chicago.

CP run through train 25T splits the braket masts at mp 417 on the ex-Conrail Chicago Line.

A tie train ducks into the siding as train 14Q rolls east with a long train of new military Hummers.

On the first day of fall the RB&BB circus train is on it's way from Grand Rapids, MI to Lexington, KY as they pass though Leesburg, IN and the north end of the siding at CP 19.

Eastbound NS 25A leaves Claypool, IN behind and begins climbing a short grade with a former Conrail Dash 8 in charge.

The ex-UP SD60 on the point of eastbound 306 has suffered a failure and now the crew begins to switch out the head 12 cars so they can get their train under tonnage and make it to Ft Wayne with a ... (more)

Eastbound intermodel Q110 moves at 25mph past men and equipment doing some track work on Main 1 passing stopped westbound Q149.

NS rack train I80 begins to climb the grade out of Claypool with a lone Dash 9 on a crisp clear spring morning.

Empty NS coal train 885 works east between Burket and Claypool, Indiana past an old barn that looks like it's days are numbered.

In the midst of a beautiful spring sunset, NS 323 hustles back east to Ft Wayne with only about 2 hours left to work after interchanging with the EJ&E in Van Loon.

A 4 pack of GE's lug a colorful stack train up the grade in nice late afternoon light a couple miles west of Mountainair, NM on the Clovis Sub.

It's another busy morning on the Gallup Sub as 2 DPU pushers help a westbound grain train while passing an eastbound stacker at the Continental Divide.

A bare table train, with a brand new CSX Gevo along for the ride, makes it's way eastbound near Thoreau, NM and past some of the great scenery along the Gallup Sub.

With the beautiful red rock cliffs in the background, an eastbound with 6 units charges around the sweeping curve near South Guam on the Gallup Sub. They'll be slowing down shortly though as the ... (more)