Looking down on the junction at the intersection of Lake and Wells Streets in Downtown Chicago.

CEFX gets an escort as it is repositioned in the BNSF engine servicing yard.

A rare set of engines for Kansas City leads NS Train 33J past UP Armourdale Yard at Terminal Jct., on the UP KC Metro Sub., headed for the adjacent UP 18th Street Yard. This Decatur, IL to KC m... (more)

Topping the KCT Sheffield Flyover, NS Train 33J has another short, but fairly abrupt climb up the hill on the Terminal before drifting downhill to its destination: UP 18th Street Yard.

A torrential downpour is dousing KCT Train 505 as it services Aspen Products, off the former Frisco Coburg Lead, now KCT Track 243.

Sheffield Tower 8 sits in the shadow of the neighborhood's flyover as KCT Train 505 goes on duty for the evening. This was my first time running 3852 out here on this job. Previously it was WAMX... (more)

Milwaukee SD40-2s 176 and 194 look bright and fresh as they slam a freight over the diamonds at CNW's Deval tower at Des Plaines, Illinois. The train is playing tag with threatening weather as it ... (more)

A Conrail work train passes through Hillside. Note the Conrail lettering on the American crane. Not much equipment remaining with Conrail reporting marks.

Two Union Pacific employees inspect the track that caused a minor derailment in the Roseville Yard. Behind them, an overturned hopper car continues to drain "plastic sand" creating those... (more)

Ex QR National Railway, 2111D, being craned off the “Clipper Amber” at Maydon Wharf in Durban. 2111D formed part of a consignment of locomotives that arrived in South Africa in June 2012 from... (more)

A deep freeze has settled into the Mahanoy Valley as a Tamaqua Extra crew has completed switching empty hopper cars at Mahanoy City Yard. The steam from the Gilberton Power Company co-generation f... (more)

The Shannopin mine railroad: A trip to photograph the Monongahela Railway yielded a day with the usually-busy Waynesburg Southern side of the MGA dead due to scheduled track work. The only activi... (more)

Norfolk Southern GP33ECO number 4700 poses outside the paint shop at Altoona's Juniata Shop for a portrait on a cold snowy evening. 4700 will be assigned to the Chicago area. Photo by Casey Thom... (more)

Brand new ACS-64 #625 takes a small break in New York Penn Station while the next crew prepares it for the last section of it's shakedown run, NYP-WAS. 625 had problems at the beginning of it's ru... (more)

A more than impressive shelf cloud precludes normal switching activities as a severe thunderstorm rolls into Kansas City. There was at least a 60 MPH wind gust associated with this a few minutes ... (more)