With the days work done spotting cars at Beisser Lumber, IAIS 703 rests peacefully under a starlit sky near the end of the line at Grimes IA.

NS 5333 leads steel coils West out of Lakefront Yard.

The Butler Yard to Waterloo daily freight pulls into the CN yard at Waterloo to do interchange work. The crew passes the 2 EJ&E switch engines the CN normally has on hand for the local assignments... (more)

Norfolk Southern’s Altoona based local C52 arrives back into town after the sun has risen, typically this job does their work under the cover of darkness. They head west towards Johnstown and se... (more)

Croxton Arrival. Norfolk Southern Train H81 was returning to Croxton Yard when it passed by the former NJ Transit Harmon Cover Station platform on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 22, 2025 w... (more)

Outward Bound This IAIS local runs south through Moline with the Centennial Bridge and the Father of Rivers as a backdrop.

Aside from one short chase of them westbound a few years back, I've never really made much of an effort to find BNSF's Madison local on the Hanley Falls Subdivision. With a sunny Monday morning an... (more)

Photographer unknown. From my collection.

Switching South Plainfield. Norfolk Southern GP38-2 no. 5670, one of the railroad's Operation Lifesaver units, is seen idling in South Plainfield Yard, operating as Conrail Shared Asset... (more)

Comprised of just two locomotives, BNSF's Madison local rolls east through Clarkfield, MN as the Prairie Grain Partners' elevator power sits nearby. The JLCX 383 is a former BC Hydro SD38-2. It's ... (more)

The Butler to Manly job creeps through Greene as they make their way north on the Manly Sub. The hefty train has cars for the CPKC at Nora Springs and a lot of cars for Manly. Guess the Manly elev... (more)

BB 16 leads the dinner train eastbound through Little Rock Tunnel. This small 80 foot bore on the east slope of Afton mountain is one of the highlights of the scenery that the North Mountain Subdi... (more)

KCS 2016 dead in tow on CPKC 230 though Bay City Junction in Detroit Michigan. Here it is seen about to go pass Michigan Central Station in Detroit.

GMTX 2697 and black and silver PRLX 1212 are two new visitors to the Locomotive Specialist Facility in Waycross, Georgia. Inside the shop, former Illinois Central 1439 is finally going through a ... (more)

P&LE GP38-2 sits at a locomotive facility in Youngstown, Ohio. The P&LE served the steel industry between Pittsburgh, PA and Youngstown, OH. The closing of steel mills led to the end of the P&LE i... (more)