On a warm and breezy October afternoon the crew is enjoying the air as their pair of SD50s, the 6778 and 6782, bring the 135 cars of symbol ALEL-0 through the curves of the Allegrippus between MG ... (more)

Back when capacity for Powder River coal traffic was a serious issue on the North Platte Sub, returning empties were often routed out the mainline to Egbert, WY and thence up the Yoder Sub to rejo... (more)

BNSF 4339 South has been twisting up the arduous grade over Tehachapi Pass with its steady roar audible for some time now. Exiting Tunnel No.10, the heavy manifest passes the intermediate signals ... (more)

November snow has fallen the past day and the wind has a chill bite, yet the sky is clearing as the 5756 East comes around the corner from Colores and plods past the Hermosa crossing on the long g... (more)

Spring is late to arrive high on the mountain as brand new SD-60I 5630 from the Juniata Locomotive Shop in Altoona leads one of the daily procession of manifests up the mountain grade from Altoona... (more)

Uh oh! NS 2538 leads an ethanol train through Port interlocking near Newport, PA; but the real thrust of the shot is that generic "intruder" soon to replace the venerable signal bridge ... (more)

BNSF 7202 leads an auto rack train through the crossover after letting an intermodal outfit by that was literally flying through. Increasingly few pockets of "heritage" signals remain a... (more)

BNSF 767 leads a C30-7B and two Sd40-2s across the Colorado River at Topock, AZ. It will be a long uphill climb almost all of the way to Maine.

West Green River Dispatcher Dick Christensen is updating the train graph at the 4th Subdivision desk in Cheyenne. Christensen was the long time second trick (3-11pm) dispatcher for the railroad be... (more)

SP 358, a superior workhorse for the terrain, leads a coal train along the Arkansas River at Granite, CO on the now forlorn Tennessee Pass Subdivision, not long before the line succumbed to a fate... (more)

The SP years were the heyday for the Tennessee Pass route but things are about to reach an abrupt end in just a few months. Meanwhile the passing sidings are kept polished by meets such as is tran... (more)

Gliding through the sweeping curve east of Tyrone, NS 8435 East (the former CR 6257) enters the narrow confines of Spruce Creek valley on an autumn morning when the sun has gracefully broken throu... (more)

Just another coalie plying the flatlands of Nebraska...UP6587 passes the imposing Wagner Mills in Schuyler, NE as an eastbound recedes in the distance.

During the years that my son attended college in Laramie, WY we took a one week Spring Break tour along the Transcon. These were great times and we'd spent the night west of Seligman sleeping betw... (more)

Late afternoon finds the 4901 West grinding up the grade from Pica to Yampai. In another mile it will be downgrade to the Colorado River, 113 miles distant. Fuji Provia F.