Engine 487 sits while taking on water at Cumbres Pass. 487 will continue onto Osier as a special dinner train.

Empty grain train 51Q stretches over the rugged terrian of the Commerce Branch outside of the small town of Gillsville on a muggy August morning. The train made exceptional time during their 17 mi... (more)

Empty grain train 51Q, with a pair of BNSF D9-44CW's bracketing a lone NS D9-44CW, shoves back towards the Mar-Jac mill yard with most of the train assembled for the return trip north.

19K breaks through the fog at the south siding switch Leedsburg on a late summer night.

Railroading is a game of numbers.

90 cylinders. 10,800 horsepower. 7,894 tons. 17,200 more horsepower. 2.2 percent.

Three MRL SD45's, with the help of four more EMD's cu... (more)

A little piece of Alaska in Southern Ohio. A former Alaskan GP49 sits tied down in Ancor Yard on the outskirts of Cincinnati. CCET 2807 is used as the day to day engine for the Cincinnati East Ter... (more)

During an ice storm, the NS 8099 leads an oil train through Lilly. I was in for quite of an adventure, when I persued this train even farther!

Extra 171 West holds short of Divide 4's stop signal right next to the tower. In a few moments, the train would proceed into Hicksville station, then head east to Port Jefferson.

One of the two remaining Chicago & North Western painted and numbered engines on the UP was assigned to lead the KG1LAC-27 from Chicago, Illinois to City of Industry, California. The CNW 8646 glid... (more)

Ballast Extra with SD38 2003 leading. The train will eventually be picked up by the PILE and brought up to Mountain Top where they will begin ballasting the Lehigh Division.

The eastbound roadrailer creeps through downtown Baldwin at 10MPH with a standard cab SD70 leading the way.

So I had gotten a heads up this morning about Q508 having a HLCX-CN pair that was by Defiance at dawn so I decided I'd go have a look when it turned north at Deshler. I had no idea it'd have an HL... (more)

It's just two days before Christmas 2013 and Potsdam, NY and the rest of the North Country have just been hit with a bad ice storm. The impact of the storm is evident as Train Q152 comes through ... (more)