A pair of EMD Demonstrator engines bring this loaded coal train Eastbound heading into Denver. The cars in the background are for the wind break on the Big Ten curve.

NS 754 crawls its way upgrade just north of Ferrum, VA hammering away in notch 8.

The Hualapai Mountains stand tall in the background as a hot eastbound intermodal grinds its way up Kingman Canyon on the BNSF's Transcon. The train is about one-quarter of the way to the summit ... (more)

A trio of GEs run their stack train 'left handed' around the curve out of town headed westbound in the evening light.

Led by the newer model ET44AC, train 191 rumbles through downtown Augusta as it crosses over Watkins Street and approaches the Augusta Yard.

BNSF 3765, 7287, 7920, & 9143 westbound with 102 cars in tow.

Eastbound empty biz train heads through Plum River on it's way to Chicago.

A pair of big clean GEs lead train Q111 away from Swan Landing.

Working through Hesperia along Santa Fe Ave in the late afternoon is a westbound BNSF manifest with a brand new tier4 leader.

BNSF 8066 leads a two car Boeing J-train west over the Wenatchee River several miles south of Plain, WA. the train is headed to the Renton, WA boeing plant.

Brand new BNSF 3748 leads a fast moving westbound manifest through Hesperia on the Cajon Sub.

CN ET44AC 3027 leads train L766's 98 coal empties west on the Foothills Sub, destined for a load of coal from the tipple at Coal Valley, AB.

Led by an ET44AH CSX Q020 heads east thru Berea, Ohio

The past and the future converge on the Capitol Corridor as a 1994 EMD motor leads a 2017 Siemens locomotive. This is the view from our room at the Hyatt House in Emeryville, a great place to wat... (more)