Yard engines at the yard office.

M583 rolls into Fayetteville with a Rocky Mount bound manifest.

M408 passes through downtown Dunn on CSX's A Line main. The ACL's main splits through the middle of many of the communities it passes in the Carolinas.

If Rock Island had adopted an all-yellow paint scheme in anticipation of the doomed UP merger this might have been the result; an all yellow E8 661 former UP 941 glow in early morning light a... (more)

Three generations of different locomotives (M62UMM, 2TE116 and, 2TE25KM) on display in the Sukhbaatar yard. Join & Inquire about railfanning tours in Mongolia: monrailpic@gmail.com

A Russian export-transit oil train hauled by 2TE25KM-0734 passes through Mongolia en route to China. Russian crude oil exports via Mongolia have steadily increased over the past two years, driven ... (more)

CN 5489 heads East through Rockford with a single car for Genoa.

Todays version of CN's Freeport based local heads East with just a single car in tow. The train is just about to cross beneath Kelley Road, just West of Seward.

Buttercup in the morning sun.

New Cape Central Railway (NCCR) is a new player on the South African railway preservation scene - trains started running between Robertson and Nuy in September 2023. The service is a steam (daily... (more)

Almost feels like UP is trying out a new paint job here. Instead of Grey and Yellow, It's Brown and Yellow with gray trucks. Reminds me of the short lived Utah Southern with their SD40's painted B... (more)

Taking advantage of the last week of June when the sun in far north in sky. On an essentially northbound train.

Two Utah Railway units have badly faded paint 2000, and 3002. The crazy thing is they are the ones with the newest paint jobs in 2015. Second unit 2008 was painted 2013.

Pellet loads from the U.S. Steel Minntac plant glide down the Iron Range sub at Biwabik, MN.

Happy Canada Day! A trio of BUDD RDC's have just arrived at White River, Ontario after leaving Sudbury in the morning travelling across CPKC Railway's Cartier, Nemegos, and White River Subdivision... (more)