The next 2 ex-EMD SD60's to be put into service on the CN is the 5420 and 5432. Here this 2 units sit in the shops getting all the final touches put on and ready for testing. As short of power as ... (more)

The sun is setting behind the town of Belgrade as a CP train rolls east.

Florida East Coast train 335 hold the siding in Palm Bay as northbound train FEC 222 with white Tropicana cars streaks by.

WSOR 4030 sits on the wye with some rip cars, 4030 would disappear during the middle of the night for Madison.

A little night time switching at IRM with an F unit!! 118 moves around some locomotives to get ready for Diesel Days.

Lombard nocturne
At 11:07 p.m. on the night of September 11, 2011, a BNSF coal empty lights up the cliffs at Lombard, Montana, on the scenic Montana Rail Link.

After several hours of delays between Barr Yard and Yard Center, CSX's handling of INRD's run-thru Coke train from Minnesota heads south down former C&EI rails at my namesake town.

In the midst of a spectacular Arizona sunset, a long eastbound manifest crawls it's way up the grade at Maine and to an elevation of over 7400 ft.

The summer sun rises as a single GE leads a baretable train east near Frazee.

Running 8 hours and 16 minutes late out of their Glenview, IL. station stop, Amtrak #8 dashes through the Control Point at Morton Grove, IL. and out of the darkness, hell bent for Chicago's Union ... (more)

30 minutes after sunset this eastbound train seems to be running from the light as it and the tree line behind it are silhouetted against the dusk sky.

Working hard into the night, a welding gang works on replacing the frog on the switch at Fullerton as the take a break to let an eastbound stack train pass by.

DPU in Sullivan's Curve [2012 Solstice Study +1] - UP stack train rounds the turn at Sullivan's Curve on it's way to Dagget on BNSF trackage.

"Easy Does It:" As the sun sets, the evening rock runner slowly navigates the curves on the Shenandoah Sub as it prepares to enter the mainline. For my 100th photo, I had to upload ... (more)

4052 sits with a group of other 40's outside the shops in Janesville.