GVRR 2199, with several coaches full of holiday season passengers, traverses the switches across the west end of the Hodge Yard as it makes its way back towards the stockyards.

Two CSX Dash 9s and a single UP SD70M sit silently in front of the intermodal facility on Detroit's south side.

The first light of the new year has just come over the horizon as AMTK 62 leads the westbound Empire Builder across the sub-zero North Dakota prairie east of Granville.

A massively overpowered stack train rolls past the railroad park with four units pulling 50 cars if they were lucky. This was today's stack shuttle to Chicago.

BNSF 4831 and sibling with boxcars were teasing the photographer for over 25 minutes and never came fully out of the yard, but fortunately BNSF 7424 and another sibling provided a photo opportunit... (more)

A mixed set of power inches forward around the coal loop as hoppers are dumped out of view to the right. The pickup truck serves as a crew vehicle for trips to the "facilities."

A pair of cascade green geeps hauls the Drayton Local back southbound along the Glasston Subdivision past the potato sheds just south of Minto. Photo taken on private property with permission.

After coming up from Grand Forks earlier in the morning, BNSF 2300 is quiet and tied up for the day at the south end of the sidings at the sugar plant north of Drayton. A fresh crew will bring it ... (more)

Coal empties from Ardoch, ND, roll southward out of Grand Forks behind a matching trio of Heritage II SD70MACs.

GMTX or GATX? You take your pick. Either way, a local heads for Aurora to do some work.

A pair of mismatched GEs leads a coal load heading for the hill.

Some might think this old warbonnnet isn't pretty enough for the point, but it's more than obvious that it still has enough power for DPU service on the Front Range!

An AC44 leasor and a fading SD70MAC roll southward on the rear of coal loads around Palmer Lake.

A pre-production GEVO and a veteran MAC pass a road-railer which at one time had a head start of over a mile before this lob-sided hill climb competition. The coal train carries about 25 times the... (more)

Eastbound coal loads head up the grade running wrong main out of coal country.