After meeting the Longmont Switch at Longs Peak, this empty coal train led by a leased CitiRail ES44AC coasts down Berthoud Hill just outside of the town of Berthoud, Colorado.

On a crisp morning a Loram rail grinder lights up the west slope of MRL's Bozeman Pass just before dawn. The grinder is moving west and the track still steams where it had just passed over.

SP in SC! After a little over a week of catching fallen flag units leading various trains around the area it was finally my turn to get in on the behind the scenes action as I was the condu... (more)

BNSF 7221 leads the Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL "Z" train at Sandcut, shortly after sunset.

NICTD South Shore commuter train rounds curve on 11th Street nearing 11th Street Station

Amtrak 19 passing through Oakwood, GA as he tries to make up time.

A short 288 pauses for cross traffic at the B&O diamond as the sun rises on a new day. A remnant of rail is still visible in the bottom right of the photo.

The Union Pacific Sheboygan local is working the Cargill plant

CP Train 458 begins the Decent down Laflin hill in Yatesville, PA

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: Westbound oil train cuts through the dense morning fog, with an Executive leading. That aside, how do they run on this horrendous track.

The Bethlehem Yard in Bethlehem, PA, to the East Yard in St. Paul, MN, roadrailer train blast west thru Miller City. This train runs thru at Chicago to the UP and runs as ZCHEM for the rest of the... (more)

L075 is normally a morning job that comes out of Ft. Wayne to Leipsic and back. This Sunday the local ran late afternoon. Here the job finishes up their work at the steel plant at Leipsic before h... (more)

Canadian Pacific Nitrin Job led by GP 105/103 southbound from Cordova, IL pass MOW crews at Rapids city enroute to Nahant Yard south of Davenport, IA

As a crew services Arkansas and Missouri Alco C420 No. 54, two C420s off the passenger train slowly tread by at Springdale, Arkansas, on May 7, 2014.

Due to a combination of a harsh winter, booming oil industry, and aggressive trackwork, Amtrak's Prized train, the Empire Builder detours over the KO Sub. While the eastbound train 8 still uses i... (more)