Remembering the Manny: Far from home, MRS 210 is working as the switcher at ADM in Evansville. Albeit faded, and weather worn, this classic ALCo S-2 is still dressed in the classy Manufactu... (more)

Remembering the Manny: As seen from a passing UP local (LSE57 - DeSoto Local), MRS 257 goes about switching the Budwiser brewery yard. These cars are filled with beer being shipped nation w... (more)

Remembering the Manny: Unfortunately, this scene cannot be repeated, the engine house remains, but the Manny is just a memory now. On a sunny spring day, MRS 257 drags a cut of cars out of ... (more)

Remembering the Manny: Unfortunately, nothing in this photo exists anymore. In 2005 a Manny SW1500 pulls a lone boxcar through Century Used Brick at the corner of Barton and 2nd Street. Cen... (more)

Remembering the Manny: Unfortunately, nothing in this photo exists anymore. In 2005 a Manny SW1500 pulls a lone boxcar through Century Used brick headed back towards 2nd St. There weren't b... (more)

Way Back Machine: Before the ban on cameras and electronic devices on the railroad, we wait for an A&S move to clear before we head East. The A&S move is coming off the grade to the MacArth... (more)

Way Back Machine: On a foggy summer night in 2007, an A&S transfer job with a Geep 38 and two SW1500's pokes out of a yard lead at Vally Jct. They are pointed towards Dupo, which is most li... (more)

Way Back Machine: In another scene that can't be repeated, in the summer of 2006, RRC 14 runs around steel coil cars on what is left of the Wabash UD line. The only remaining customers at t... (more)

Way Back Machine: In another scene that can't be repeated, in the summer of 2006, RRC 14 services one of the remaining customers on what is left of the Wabash UD line as a Metrolink light r... (more)

Way Back Machine: Now almost 14 years ago, in a scene that can't be repeated. Terry Respondek himself skins 'em back, clearing the carbon out of 1206 and 604. They are dragging loads of ste... (more)

They Just Look Right: There is just something that looks right about an F40 on the point of a passenger train. These stocky looking units were a staple of Amtrak for years, and still for ma... (more)

Done For the Day: After making the return trip to williams from the South Rim of the canyon, the "Williams Flyer" shoves down towards the wye to be turned for the following day. #... (more)

Stuffed and Mounted: Unfortunately, with the Grand Canyon Ry having purchased several EMD F40's for power, the MLW cab units that once ruled the roost have gone by the wayside. A couple FPA... (more)

Desert Landscapes: Just on the other side of the fabulous Meteor Crater, the DPU on a Westbound BNSF manifest freight follows towards Flagstaff. In the distance the San Francisco volcanic f... (more)

Rock Cut: Nearing the final hours of the day, just outside Flagstaff, a lower priority BNSF intermodal train grinds up a short but steep grade and through a rock cut, as it heads West.