The "Foamer Express" as dubbed by the Iowa Interstate crews this afternoon. The 516 on its first revenue run leaves Rock Island yard with the Abby Station in the background.

Westbound grain train running through the winter wonderland that the Columbia River Gorge has experienced this December.

Westbound coal empties with a rather clean ace on point are just outside of Valpo.

The USSC Desoto turn heads back south from Sebring towards Clewiston on ex-ACL trackage.

A spiffy pair of GE AC4400CW repaints depart Salt Lake City with an Elm Creek, Nebraska to Goshen Junction, California grain shuttle on Dec. 26, 2016.

Diesel locomotive TEM2-5027 with passenger train Askiz - Abaza goes along Abakan river in Sayan Mountains

Here's my obligatory end of 2016 photo.

Daylight freights are hard to come by this time of year account the tracks between Anchorage and Whittier see an average of only two round trip freig... (more)

Crawling through a Form A at Monolith in the late afternoon light, UP 2619 leads a colorful, Elsey-bound empty Herzog ballast train upgrade the final mile toward the summit of Tehachapi.

A Ferromex leader teams up with CN 2542 to bring New Jersey bound autoracks down Track 2 on the Selkirk Branch on a snowy morning.

Amtrak's Keystone travels through the some of the many farms of Pennsylvania.

Back to warmer days... KCS 4004 leads a northbound manifest passed Green Gables Marina.

UP 2570 a Tier 4 C45AH slithering through Cienega Creek Az. on a clear afternoon.

A few months before the Blue Cut Fire' a BNSF Z drops westbound down from Summit on main 3 while on Union Pacific's Palmdale Cutoff, a pair of helpers are pushing a mixed manifest eastbound.

The Wild, Wonderful World of Watco... Watco crews lead an empty run-through NS coal train across the former Virginian main at Sweeneysburg, W.Va., led by six leased Norfolk Southern EMD SD6... (more)