Well, good news! The derail works!

Just over two hours earlier, at 7:00, this Union Pacific switch job derailed as it was bringing a cut of cars forward (eastward) to cle... (more)

Light snow falls over the BNSF yard in Golden, Colorado. BNSF Executive Grinstein 9709 (SD70MAC) was a long time fixture of the beer train that ran between the Coors refinery in Golden and Denver... (more)

BNSF 2530 (GP39-3) leads a short freight up the Broomfield Siding on the Front Range Sub.

An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

Wearing an Olympic cycling trials billboard point job.

The morning mine train is getting ready to depart from Plaster City as DL535E pulls up to make a hook with the empty cars. Had to get a shot with a little bit of Alco (or MLW) smoke.

The Belt Job, under the control of MNNR 76, heads into the yard in Saint Paul on the opposite end of its duties. This new acquisition for the Minnesota Commercial has number 76, whereas it retaine... (more)

The backshop at Montana Rail Link’s Livingston Shop was well equipped to handle any major repair or rebuild of a locomotive for the railroad. On May 7, 2012, an assortment of blue EMDs has work ... (more)

In early November 2014, a CSX conductor safely rides the shove of a high and wide load as a westbound manifest backs up on track-2 approaching Stone Rd. with an interesting lash-up of power; CEFX ... (more)

A PHL Dock Job has just pulled a cut of cars from Berth 200 Yard and begins to shove them back towards Badger Bridge with the experimental Joule doing all the work.

Leasers sitting in the engine facility. Not listed in the on-line "all-time" roster and I'm too lazy to look in back issues of Extra 2200 South to see where they came from but I'd guess... (more)

BN 9794 has been set out from the North Coast Hiawatha during its station stop at Livingston, MT. The passenger train has just departed the station and is starting to climb Bozeman Hill, and will ... (more)

Ex CITX SD60 at Borger, TX being painted into OmniTRAX dark blue paint.

New York & Atlantic RS 40 is dropping off eight stone hoppers for Astro Masonry Supply at Hicksville Team Yard.

CSX train I007, the hot intermodal train from from North Bergen, NJ to Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL, is arriving on the "mail track" to unload its cargo.