Sailing through the crossover at Farr, NE, thirty miles east of North Platte, symbol MKSNP out of Kansas City approaches the terminal on a July afternoon. The trailing non-dynamic brake SD40-2s of... (more)

After delivering limestone loads up to U.S. Steel Minntac, CN 2004 moved down to the rock track to spot the empties and attempted to pick up loads of BFT rock, but one car door was open, so they a... (more)

On a hot July summer afternoon in North Haven, a pair of Providence & Worcester C40-8s with loads from Tilcon head back to Cedar Hill Yard.

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Back when NS was running eastbound oil trains over the Fort Wayne Line there was a good mix of power that would trickle through. Here is a shot of a Canadian trio doing the honors on a loaded oil ... (more)

A trio of dash 8's lead an ore train through Wyman.

A Two Harbors Bound Ore train enters the Iron Range Subdivision after loading Taconite pellets at U.S. Steel's Minntac Plant.

Coming through Biwabik, starring at the sun, empties roll north behind a trio of dash 8's. Note the engineer's t-shirt logo.

Wildfire smoke in the air and wildflower color in the foreground, CN 2041 starts its way back down to the Two Harbors yard and dock.

Empties meeting loads as two ore trains pass each other and exchange pleasantries on the double track section of the CN Iron Range Sub. between Sparta and Jones. Coincidently this is where the DM... (more)

Heading up from the dock and yard at Two Harbors to load taconite pellets at Minntac before returning back to the yard and dock well after dark.

A Norfolk Southern crew onboard CSXT 7554 spots the animal cars in a siding alongside the NS R Line in South Carolina's capitol city on the day the Red Unit train came to town in 2012.

Spartan cab Dash 8-40C returns to the roster. CSXT 7627 built new in August of 1990 looks to have more miles to cover for its original owner sporting number 9280. After retirement from CSX in 2016... (more)

Just as the sun breaks over the eastern horizon, CN 2039 rumbles north with limestone loads for the Minorca plant.

On the first of September, four Providence & Worcester C40-8s take 32 hoppers uphill towards Williams Road in Wallingford. These cars were loaded a few miles to the north at Tilcons Reeds Gap Quar... (more)