In some early morning light, CN 3031 leads eastbound stack train Q120 approaching the New Brunswick/Nova Scotia border.

CSXT Q010-29 is seen crossing high above Roundout Creek at Kingston, NY with a pair of ET44ACs leading the southbound intermodal train.

On a gorgeous summer afternoon in New York, CSXT train Q434-29, CSXT 3320 leading, heads northbound on the CSXT River Subdivision and over the Roundout Creek at Kingston. Several have asked: name... (more)

BNSF 3819 leads an oil train northwest out of Lombard Canyon on its way to Helena, MT and the West Coast.

After a long and rainy winter in the Willamette Valley, UP 2575 leads the QPDRV (freight from Portland, OR to Roseville, CA) along 12th Street in Salem, OR on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

Citirail 1506 leads Q137 through Akron, Ohio on one of the first days of spring. Off to the right is the old Erie Railroad right away, which is used as a dirt path now.

An oddball duo of a CSX Tier 4 and an NS C40-9W pull what I believe was NS 177 on this date.

A trio of locomotives led a long intermodal train into Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Two trains splitting two sets of signals. CN B730 is heading east through St-Henri as it splits a set of signals (not yet in use, though they've been in place over a year) near MP 3 of CN's... (more)

UP 3028, a new tier 4 ACe, leads a westbound manifest.

Daytime Freight on the Coast Line

BNSF Railway train H-SDGBAR1-22 (High Priority Merchandise - today it is all autoracks - heading from San Diego to Barstow) crosses Santiago Creek a... (more)

A very off schedule BNSF freight heads up the Surf Line at San Clemente behind a pair of Tier 4 GEs. Westbound freights typically pass through here in the late evening hours, but today's train off... (more)

It's been more than a year since the first EMD F125 arrived on Metrolink's property...and yet, the commuter rail agency continues to struggle in bringing the new units online. In the meantime, the... (more)

An E/B BNSF autorack train with a KCS trailing passes through the tiny town of Verona, Illinois where some remaining ATSF searchlights still stand. With looming PTC deadlines, their replacements a... (more)