A view from above as CSX SD50 #8616 leads work train W043 through Thurmond, WV at the end of the work day.

First train I caught on 7/5/14 was this Q008 with CSX 7601 leading. It's always nice to see a standard cab unit leading.

Spokane, Portland & Seattle puts on a show during a photo runby at Avery, Wash., on the first day of a four day trip to Pasco.

EMD's SD70ACe-P4 demos are switched at the east end of remote Timpas siding after a day of testing with BNSF's R&D test cars. The mostly silent (except for Amtrak's SW Chief) Raton Sub provides a... (more)

An empty frac train moves eastward past the Dilworth yard behind a trio of GEs.

16,300 horsepower throttle up as they head north with a long Anchorage-to-Fairbanks freight seen here between Elmendorf AFB and Fort Richardson.

A warbonnet splits a pair of searchlights located along the UP Sacramento Subdivision just south of Oroville, California as it shoves a loaded Bakken crude oil train towards Richmond.

The second of three tank trains on our evening jaunt across the NS Chicago Line in Indiana was an empty ethanol train from Philadelphia led by a BNSF GEVO. The train is seen on the approach to the... (more)

At 4:40am, the northbound signals at Ayersville, milepost 552.0 of the Piedmont Division, show all stop for southbound manifest 348 to pass through. These Southern Railway signals are on their ver... (more)

G988-22 passes beneath the ACL-era searchlight signal bridge at Rock Quarry Road. This is one of the last(if not the last) intermediate signal in NC that has a signal bridge equipped with searchli... (more)

CSX general manifest train Q302 (Russell, KY to Richmond, VA) is stopped, waiting to enter and work Sandy Hook Yard at 8:15 am. Behind the locomotives, is a large cut of empty woodchip hoppers fro... (more)

The sun sets on a westbound stack train. For me, this is the second time the sun sets on May 31st. I watched the sunset at 6pm in Tokyo Japan. Upon my arrival at LAX, it was 11:30am, the same day ... (more)

The westbound absolute signals at Williamsfield are lined up for a westbound on Main #1. This is the busy BNSF Transcon Mainline and ex-Santa Fe territory. The Santa Fe style signal system is stil... (more)

Southbound FEC train 107 has just cleared the south end of the Palm Bay siding as a severe thunderstorm approaches. Five different lightning strikes from this very intense storm are shown in this ... (more)

A farmer's crossing makes easy access to the crossover signals at Edelstein. Here we look west at sunset as traffic is fleeting westbound on main #1. The Santa Fe era signals are still standing ta... (more)