A westbound Canadian National intermodal train curves through the beautiful Thompson River Canyon just east of Spences Bridge, British Columbia, on September 28, 2001. Powering the train is EMD S... (more)
On the morning of August 31, 2018, Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” is southbound between Garrison and Coleharbor, North Dakota. Powering the train operating on DMV&W’s Mis... (more)
Flashback to early 2006. UP 4141 leads the Houston to Fort Worth manifest train through Waco Texas. This was back when it was in revenue service four months after its debut in College Station Texa... (more)
Early on a fall morning, a 5899 train headed for Richmond, CA, meets an eastbound in the hole at Glen Frazer. The conductor on the rear platform of his caboose can clearly hear the 589 approaching... (more)
UP 1943 slips back toward Houston after waiting near Navasota Texas for the Bush Funeral Train to pass. The locomotives were waiting as a ready back up in case either of the 2 passenger specials f... (more)
A clean B&LE tunnel motor shoves Limestone loads back from Hallett under CN's dormant Dock 5 in Duluth, MN to then head up Proctor Hill
Passing by the calm waters of the Clark Fork at a location we called “the cove,” a BNSF coal train heads westbound between Eddy and Thompson Falls, Montana, on the morning of September 18, 201... (more)
SP's loaded Shell Oil Train roars up the stiff and curving grade at the west end of Bealville. Note that all power on the head end is EMD tunnel motors. The train weighs in at approximately 10,000... (more)
DRGW 5515 and 3 other SD50's have just begun loading at the Pittsburgh & Midway mine near Oak Creek, Colorado. This mine is now inactive and everything in this photo, except the rails, has been re... (more)
Burlington Northern Railroad on the Norfolk and Western Railway. CBFX 6031 was originally built as BN 9244 in 1990.
General Electric AC4400CW No. 6781, EMD SD70M No. 5146 and EMD SD9043MAC No. 3681 sit outside Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015.
The Wabash heritage unit charges through Koehler with a load of empty hoppers headed back to Roanoke and eventually the Pennsylvania coal mines.
Rochester & Southern GW-1 passes through the yard tracks in Retsof, NY with a train of empty salt hoppers bound for Mount Morris. Locomotives:BPRR 3063 SD40M-2WCOR 3346 SD40-3B... (more)
A UP ACe leads an empty rail train north passed Big Lift on the Colorado Joint Line, with the Front Range of the Rockies providing a nice backdrop.
UP 8904 is eastbound at Troy, CA during a brief break in the heavy snowfall.