The end of a short rail spur in tiny Hensler, North Dakota, on BNSF’s Zap Subdivision branch line out of Mandan has an unique end-of-track bumper. I’ve never seen one used this way, and I’m not su... (more)

NKP 765 blasts through Tinley Park after a weekend of excursions between Joliet and downtown Chicago.

NKP 765 storms out of New Lenox with the Joliet Rocket.

A pair of IC SD40-3s have shoved another train up .99% grade of Byron Hill. Once the come to a stop, they will cut away and head back to Shops in Fod Du Lac.

No open house today, during the Frontier Days run, but they did have this little item outside.

“Are You Doing Your Part (?)”
CS/WM caboose (90)1803, in the green safety paint scheme, along with CS/WM (90)1863 (partly visible) in standard Chessie System attire, gets a Sunday off, a... (more)

An eastbound detouring VIA train has just entered the Galt Sub at Obico and is now heading east crossing over onto the no 2 track for the trip to Union Station via the CPR.

The moon is a special shade of blue when FCEN uses the old tangent into downtown Winter Garden, gone are the days when this was the traditional route wherein trains would reverse direction a coupl... (more)

A pair of IC SD40-3s shove a southbound manifest out of Fond Du Lac and up Byron Hill.

July 2000 finds me watching trains on the UP Spineline in central Iowa. A northbound empty grain train races towards Mason City as they blow past Bradford. The sun and clouds were barely working i... (more)

An empty grain bound for western Iowa is about to Blairsburg in central Iowa. The CN era of big power hasn't quite taken effect west of Waterloo back in 2006, the 40's were still king on many trai... (more)

A westbound IC, what looks like an I-11 type train, slams across the UP Spineline in Iowa Falls. The train has just pasted the old Mills Tower that was open til 1993. The two-story tower was built... (more)

I made 2 trip to Saskatchewan back in 2010-11. There are some cool railroad operations and scenery in this providence. One of the must do shortlines was the Great Western railroad. The railroad w... (more)

Lots of people get cranked up for the RDC test car that CN uses to do geometry testing across their system. The only reason I was excited was for my kids to see it for the 1st time. The CN usually... (more)

Under steam. The 611 works up a head of steam at the beginning of the night photography shoot at the N.C. Transportation Museum.