This is snowmobile country and one such outdoor enthusiast scoots past this former C&NW F7A, now employed by the Wisconsin Great Northern and positioned here to help move store freight cars.

Richard Beal photo: The late great DRGW moving some coal out of Steamboat with a shiny SD50 on the front and some more normally dirty power behind.

The first Genesee & Wyoming corporate image unit to move over the New England Central Railroad is seen on Sunday morning, March 10, when road freight train 324-10 heads south past the former Sprin... (more)

A trio of former Soo Line SD60s rest along Conrail's Chemical Coast Secondary track at Tremley siding. The units had arrived earlier on a loaded ethanol train. In the distance an empty ethanol t... (more)

Objects in mirror appear closer than they are! There is no need to bail out of the truck... With a protect against in place with 316, the train creeps up to the back of my hi rail to drop off a re... (more)

The snazzy paint job on Montana Limestone Company’s SD50F Nos. 5404 and 5438 is seen at Warren, Montana, in the pouring rain on May 24, 2011. These two former Canadian National locomotives opera... (more)

With throttle now wide open after descending Belmont Hill, a brace of GE U30-C's heads up a Powder River coal train as it charges through Marsland Nebraska and starts up the next grade into Owl Cu... (more)

BNSF 100 entered MAC as a warbonnet and has exited in black and orange. The paint scheme is a sort of H1-H3 hybrid. Mimicking the colors and logo of the H3, but with lines and styling similar to H... (more)

Transporting oil by rail is becoming increasingly popular among the big oil companies. Southern Ontario sees no shortage in pipeline action as CN 305 (foreground) hauls jet fuel from Moncton, NB f... (more)

D787 heads east to crossover and come back west in order to run around their train. An interesting unit in this RDSLUG/RDMATE duo is 2246 which started life as B&O GP30 #6913. CSX's road slug prog... (more)

Warm spring-like weather provides a nice puddle for reflections as this unit was moved into position to handle storage cars.

When green was new
Brand-new Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9256 gets set up in Clyde Yard engine facility at Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991, back when locomotives in a coat o... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local rumbles along the Clark Fork just west of Eddy (east of Thompson Falls), Montana, on January 24, 2013. A build-up of ice on the rocks on the edges of a cove al... (more)

The Reading unit works the paper mill in Spring Grove pictured here heading for another cut of coal cars.

A unit oil train is framed through the empty window of an abandoned Sinclair gas station along old U.S. 30 through James Town near Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of March 12, 2012. Sunset ... (more)