A late October afternoon finds CSX 297 with empty hoppers deep in the Potomac River valley at Hansrote, WV. Yes, the heritage of this route was easily discernible by those unique B&O CPLs. The wan... (more)

Southbound BNSF 7680 is negotiating the nearly constant curvature on its ascent of Tehachapi Pqss as it passes the intermediate searchlights between Walong and Marcel sidings. In a few years this ... (more)

A northbound intermodal led by UP 5364 passes Bealville, CA on an April afternoon. The stain of the tunnel district takes its toll on UP's yellow, much as it did with SP power in days past.

Along the placid Juniata River, NS 9708 leads an afternoon intermodal train through the curves at Thompsontown, PA.

Sandhills & Windmills: This is about as developed as the countryside gets for many a mile along Nebraska Route 2 that parallels the BNSF Sandhills Sub. Two of the Grinstein beauties lead yet anoth... (more)

Climbing the grade between Medicine Bow and Hanna, WY a short distance west of Como, UP 6122 leads another SD60M and two SD40s with 40 car Dupo, IL (St. Louis) to Oakland intermodal outfit ZDUOA a... (more)

Rio Grande SD50s 5503, 5515 and 5502 have held the main at Floy to meet an eastbound and are now underway with a consist of Coors beer and pigs. The train was soon pulled off its former Rio Grande... (more)

One of UP's "Fast Forties", SD40s geared to run with the 80mph Centennials, leads a six-pack of power on an eastbound van train re-crewing in Cheyenne. The 8000 series SD40s were re-gear... (more)

The semaphores, code lines and jointed rail of the former Erie made the line seem as if a railroad that time had forgotten - for awhile. Mist rises from the Canisteo River as CR 6344 brings a west... (more)

In April of 1983 a mudslide inundated the town of Thistle, UT as well as the Rio Grande tracks. For nearly three months, the Rio Grande was forced to use the UP from Denver to Ogden until a new al... (more)

The 904 West comes sailing down Abo Canyon in single track days. The area, a choke point on the Transcon, was double-tracked some ten years ago.

The 3187 East comes off the single track where the Transcon crosses the Golden State Route in Vaughn, NM - a segment that has since been double tracked. Unit 5512, second out, is a cabless SD45-2 ... (more)

UP 6848, CNW 8821 and UP 8218 lead 105 cars of coal up the grade to Sherman as they near "Old Dale", a short distance east of Dale Jct. The train is passing a formation of Sherman granit... (more)

Forever West: A long string of empty covered hoppers for soda ash loading are returning to Green River, WY as the train rolls down the grade from Lookout toward Rock River near MP601. A pre-Inters... (more)

The Steel Gang has the eastward track and all trains are using the westward track between Tipton and Black Buttes. Onboard UP 9496, ANPSE-22, we are second of six westbounds for which a pack of e... (more)