A nice mix of Santa Fe EMD power leads an eastbound TOFC train upgrade at Cajon Summit.

Bluebonnet GP60 169 and Smurfed GP38-2 2042 lead their pickup out of Suncast in Batavia. They will now begin the short trip through the forest and back to their train on the West Chicago Branch.

Patched Cotton Belt 1076 gets fully illuminated as the sun sets in Portland. Mt Hood and a WB manifest can be seen in the distance as the local switches its final customer for the day.

"A Load of Malarkey" - The YBA55 "Kenton Local" spots covered hoppers for Malarkey Roofing Products.

UP YBA55 prepares to rejoin the main and head east to Kenton yard, after switching Malarkey Roofing Products.

A Bluebonnet GP60 and a Smurfed GP38-2 team up to lead the R CHI452 back home to Eola on the West Chicago Branch. They are seen passing Lippold Park in Batavia on a perfect afternoon.

Showing the effects of a decade of service, an SP GP60 leads a lumber drag through the Sacramento River Canyon.

A contractor fuels the locomotives on the "Shasta Daylight 1990" special at Redding, California. The train would soon move into the passenger depot to entrain passengers for the return t... (more)

UP 1158, one of the last GP60s still wearing the Cotton Belt paint scheme, rolls through Des Plaines, IL during a light snow shower headed for Proviso with the LJA50 turn.

NS' bottle train comes into Dolton, where it'll take a right onto the old PRR Panhandle for the last mile to Arcelor Mittal's rolling mill in Riverdale.

BNSF 169 hauls a local out of the sheep yard in Montgomery during one of the last hours of light.

Patched Cotton Belt 1158 leads the SoBo local North out of South Beloit.

A Wyvern Yard based local works the industrial park with a rare GP60

Former Speed Lettered UP 1124 switches the Kraft/Nabisco factory in North East Portland.

UP GP60 1166 leads the SoBo local into Beloit, about to pass Frito Lay.