Wheel Slip Control can be heard screaming as this westbound coal load thunders towards Iron Ridge in Run 8. This is the toughest section of climb on the entire MRL mainline. The sight and sound... (more)
Three GE's lead this westbound North Platte to Pocatello manifest (MNPPC 19) as it rounds the curve west of Sidney, NE.
One of my favorite places to spend a morning is on the upper Austin Loop on Mullan Pass. You can hear a train thundering out of Tobin for almost an hour before it reaches this spot. The massive ... (more)
NS 118 with the GoRail leading the Linwood, NC bound freight through Gainesville, GA
BNSF 8002 leads M395 north through Joliet.
Three BNSF GEVOs run elephant style on the point of Rutherford, PA to Atlanta, GA intermodal 213. The three AC motors allowed this train to make good time down the Piedmont Division, putting the t... (more)
A new GE ES44AH leads a Global 1, IL to City of Industry, CA stacker west out of North Yard in Salt Lake City.
Clean as a whistle! Three new SD70ACes lead a loaded coal train east between Tunnel 1 and Big Ten Curve on the Front Range in a break from foul spring weather. This is their first eastbound trip a... (more)
A clean addition to the Union Pacific roster from General Electric leads an eastbound stack train from Global III in Rochelle towards Chicago on UP's Geneva Subdivision mainline.
A repositioning autorack moves into SLO. In consist, we have a reactivated Dash-8 in the 3rd position.
NS 213 flying through Midland Control Point in Gainesville, GA
Z NYCLAC7-04 with newly delivered BNSF 6579, 6584 & 6747 leading 70 loads, 5310 tons, 6858 feet.
Union Pacific AC44CCTE #5979 leads the day's Oakland, CA to Marion, AR stack train (KOAMN-04) through Martinez. Trailing is SD70M #4624, C45ACCTE #5289, and Union Pacific Yard GP15-1 #564.
BNSF 4373 leads this Northbound freight out of Mojave with CREX and NS lease power.
