A rare mid day southbound is the first FEC train of 2012. FEC threw everything together to get trains moving after the New Years Day shutdown. Since NS and CSX kept running over the holiday FEC ha... (more)

CP symbol 450, on its way from Saratoga to Kenwood Yard at the Port of Albany, sports yet another assortment of SD40's in various schemes. This train is typically good for a variety of SD40-2's. T... (more)

588 rolls through Wood Dale with a pair of leased SD40-2s and a ICE SD40-2.

Red, white, blue...and yellow! Quad SD40-2's lead a DM&E freight east while an American flag themed mailbox guards the entrance to a local business on a rather nice day for late November in Minne... (more)

A quartet of CITX leasers head up the 277 through the beautiful Lake Benton area. There isn't snow out this far, but east of here has quite a bit. With the cold temps, the snow on the locomotives... (more)

A flared rent-a-wreck has 283's train on the roll after waiting for Amtrak to pass on main one. He'll be talked by the signal 2-1 ahead at Tamarack x-overs, traffic is stacked up on this Thanksgi... (more)

In the final moments of sunlight, a quartet of EMD's power K634 east near Delaware Bend.

A little "fall color" on an extra Columbus yard job

CITX 3110 leads a Westbound near Fairport,Iowa.

While leasers may not be the favorite of many people, getting three matched units together is pretty neat. After sitting most of the day in Tracy, they finally depart at 1700, and are near the Mi... (more)

CITX 3078 leads a trio of gray leasers over an increasingly rare section of jointed rail on the CP Chicago Subdivision.

CITX pair leads D&H 158/NS 30J intermodal west across the ex PRR high line over Penn Park.

A trio of matched CITX units heads up a long 277. This train sat most of the day in Tracy, MN before a crew would take it to Huron, SD. DME trains can really stretch their legs out here as track... (more)