CSX 440 & CSX 231 drag a lengthy manifest southbound through N. E. Cairo. The next stop for this train will be in Lima, just a couple control points away. From what I understand, the mile marker r... (more)

CSX 919 leads a loaded steel slab train southbound onto the CSX Toledo Sub. After spending the better half of our day in Fostoria at the Train Show and Rail Park, my father and I decided to hea... (more)

With scattered storms looming in the distance, the westbound Southwest Chief snakes its way past the intermediate blades at MP 783.2. Passengers riding the conductor's side of the train get to enj... (more)

D743 takes the siding at SE Deshler as Q511 holds the main just south of the diamond.

IAIS 6988 passes by the West Liberty Rock Island Depot.

The Lake City to Baldwin Turn heads home with a pair of long hood forward SD's and ~80 cars on the drawbar passing signals installed by the Seaboard Air Line RR.

AT&SF 6374 is rolling east through Lomax, IL past an array of classic Santa Fe cantilevers and searchlight signals. Kodachrome.

On a cloudy winter morning, power plant coal train, NS 764, rolls east through CP Seneca on the Altavista District with an ES44AC on the point. CPL's still stand guard on the river for now. Howeve... (more)

Finding itself in a surprise, summer monsoon, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, works upgrade through Rowe during the lighter portion of what minutes prior had been a fierce downpour... (more)

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, prepares to knock down a clear signal at the eastern end of the siding at Chapelle, NM as it continues west through "The Land of Enchantment.&q... (more)

What was thought to be an early morning southbound run to Toronto was pushed back account the derailment on the CP Parry Sound Sub for meets the whole trip down. So here is 40B minus CEO Keith Cre... (more)

As the sun sets in the west, a brand-new, Tier 4, Union Pacific SD70AH (No. 3022) leads an eastbound manifest under the searchlight signal bridges at Tie Siding, WY.

Still Standing. A single semaphore still stands, blade intact, at milepost 273.4 on ex-Monon near Campbellsburg. This signal has had better fate than its eastbound counterpart, which has been remo... (more)

Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, splits the intermediate semaphores at Springer, New Mexico, as it hustles west across the plains.

Working upgrade at the Gallians crossovers, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, passes beneath the original ATSF canteliver signal bridges here as it pounds the jointed rails of the or... (more)