In what is to be their final full month under the employ of GLC, the two GATX Geeps lead OSTN south past the elevator at Cohactah. The arrival of GLC's 5 new GP38-2's in December/January will spel... (more)

828 leads intermodal train Q195 down the hill at Fox and into Grand Rapids, where it will be quickly recrewed and continue towards Chicago. Q195 and it's eastbound counterpart Q196 were recently i... (more)

After meeting L156, which can be seen heading off to the east, K311 barrels down on Wellsboro with a long train of coke.

BNSF power rolls empty bethgons west across the B&O, passing the interchange with the Chesapeake & Indiana.

BNSF 6337 leads it's train south through the S-Curve north of Palmer Lake. Off to the right is the old flyover, abandoned after the USRA re-alignment in the 1910's.

The storm that dumped buckets of rain to the north is now off to the east, and the sun has even popped out as a coal train rolls south on the Joint Line towards the single track at Palmer Lake.

A coal train heads south on the Joint Line over the old DRGW overpass in Monument. There were plenty of storms around that day as the clouds behind the train demonstrate.

844 pauses briefly for a service stop on her way to Denver.

A coal train holds for a northbound as a massive storm rolls through the valley.

4738 and 7523 are in full dynamic braking as Q335 descends the 1.2% grade at Fox down into the Grand River valley.

A pair of SD40-2's lead X500 east towards Detroit then onward to Canada. This was the first time an IC&E engine had made it onto X500.

Still wearing it's old TFM paint, Lake State 1179 trundles along the jointed rail of the former Pere Marquette/C&O with a grain train to hand off to the Mid Michigan RR at Paines.

Where GTW U class 4-8-4's once paused for coal, CN freights now roll through without stopping. A westbound CN freight passes under the old Grand Trunk Western coaling tower in Lansing, MI. Special... (more)

Fellow RP.net contributor Jon Hall shoots a westbound CN freight as it crosses Harrison Rd. Special thanks to Gregg Pullano for letting me use his 70-200L lens.

Sparkling in the late day sun, freshly repainted CSX 8042 leads a former Conrail Dash 8 west around a curve on the final leg of its Detroit to Grand Rapids journey.