A heavy fog and light rain has descended upon the New Orleans area as UP 5541 and BNSF 5950 each waits for their crew at the west end of the Avondale yard.

Ridin’ to a switch
The conductor of Copper Basin Railway OT-1 rides the steps of GP39 No. 505 to a switch while running around their ore train at the ASARCO dumper in Hayden, Arizona,... (more)

A BNSF intermodal slithers into the start of Wickenburg canyon, as the sun softly comes through a mostly cloudy sky near the end of the day.

A Winnebago in the old livery, amid thick clouds of EMD exhaust.

NS 9504 leads 36T over the Genesee River on the last day the old bridge was in service. By sunrise the next morning, the bridge pictured would be out of service and work would be underway to cut i... (more)

A UP-APL OAAP6 negotiates Williams Loop with double stacks occupying all levels of the circular alignment.

A single U18B chugs up quite a hump along the haphazardly constructed former Southern Railway branch to Belton, SC.

Coal empties fly past a surviving CB&Q searchlight on BNSF's St. Joseph Subdivision.

Santa Fe 2756 East emerges from tunnel 5 with her diesel exhaust billowing skyward. The freight is fighting a heavy grade and almost constant curvature. It was not unusual to see GP30s on the poin... (more)

In Powder River Basin, a lone DPU of a Union Pacific coal train passes an Aremotor-equipped well and some beasts that benefit from it just south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 3, 2016. I’m not sure w... (more)

A UP SD40-2 hauls a Plasser Welder north up the Mojave Sub while a BNSF intermodal heads west on the Cajon Sub. UP 3566 has since been rebuilt as SD40N 1832.

N&W Simmers at Shaffers Crossing the night before two days of excursions out of Roanoke.

A northbound Fox River Valley Railroad freight passes a dairy farm between Campbellsport and Eden, Wisconsin, on March 25, 1990. Three of FRVR’s six-axle locomotives pull the train—the pair of... (more)

A slow moving intermodal train grinds up the eastern slope of Goffs Hill as the morning sun rises over the eastern Mojave Desert on a warm September morning.

As the darkness of a bone-chilling winter's evening creeps in, a pair of venerable EMD SD40-2s lug Wisconsin Southern train no. 463 towards Reedsburg