Some rare visitors to Utah. Two KCS units lead a UP grain train. The leader is actually a Kanas City Southern de Mexico. The grain train is a Brownton, MN to Keyes, CA.

It was a treat to see the F45 in the head end of the consist. It spent most of it's days sandwiched in the helper set. (Tom Ellis photo)

The newest and cleanest Indiana & Ohio locomotive, GP38-2 No. 3565, originally built as Rio Grande GP40 No. 3053 in 1966, leads an I&O / Cincinnati Railway Passenger Special for I&O employees past... (more)

RhB steam locomotive G 3/4 11 named "Heidi" on the way to the turntable after two days of running special trains.

CSX's West Detroit local is crossing American Street. This job runs two days a week to serve the remaining industries.

The return of the Superfleet. The EMD FP45 were a beautiful locomotive, in the red and silver paint scheme. (Tom Ellis photo)

Slightly less rare in the last year. But definitely not something you see often. A Norfolk Southern leading a UP train out west. A GE C44-9W to make thing even better. NS 9639 pulls a eastbound e... (more)

Cotton Candy Skies On The CPKC | The evening begins to darken and the clouds are reflecting the last rays of sunlight as a CPKC grain train heads south on the mainline just north of Gentry,... (more)

Soutbound Grain Under A Setting Sun | Cruising south under the late afternoon sunlight of a warm Wednesday, June 7, 2023, a CPKC grain train enters a curve on the main track at Dorsey, just... (more)

SP 4-8-8-2 4187 leads a westbound freight past the Caboose Cafe, in Los Angeles California, on August 2nd 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Bluebird Morning Belles | Leaving the fog in southern Missouri behind, a southbound grain train heads across a bridge in Sulphur Springs, Arkansas on the sunny morning of Sunday, June 4, 20... (more)

Golden Fog in Lanagan | A trio of belle-painted GEs lead a southbound grain train through the town of Lanagan, MO on the foggy morning of Sunday, June 4, 2023.

Morning Meet at McElhany | Early on the morning of Sunday, June 4, 2023, a northbound train of empty coal hoppers is about to pass a southbound grain train a little ways north of Goodman, M... (more)

The 1975 built locomotive Re 620 026, the only and one with a "moustache" decoration, heads to Singen (Hohentwiel) to pick up a cement train.

Afternoon photograph of an old ETR-450-Pendolino parked here since the morning, as you can see it has faded colors, some dents and some graffiti, it already lacks some important parts previously... (more)