It's a chilly morning on the mountain as symbol PIMO for Morrisville, PA eases downgrade just past the westward home signals for MG. The 135 car tonnage outfit had five locomotives on the point pl... (more)

Utah Ry. #5004 leads 4 other 6 axle units up the 2.4% grade in Price River Canyon headed towards Soldier Summit. The train is just exiting the oft photographed horseshoe curve below Kyune. Thanks ... (more)

A Puget Sound and Pacific grain train from Hastings, NE and destined for Aberdeen, WA was traversing the Montana Rail Link just below Mullan Pass at a place known as the Austin Curves. The train... (more)

Was a busy day on Saturday, 7/20, by my place along the Dubuque Sub. During daylight 6 trains passed by between Waterloo and Manchester. Normally this section only has 1 scheduled train in dayligh... (more)

With a low throated chug, two relatively new AC4400CW units ease their coal train into Plain, CO for a meet with westbound empties. The days of SP as an independent carrier and of the former D&RGW... (more)

My one keeper from a morning chase of bad choices. After swapping conductors, loaded grain train RJAY rumbles east from a dead stop st CPF 464 as it approaches Route 67. The 71 car train has fou... (more)

A loaded sweet brand train out of Eddyville, IA, fights the .75-.80% grade into New Boston as they pass the approach signal for the Argyle crossovers in southern Iowa and pass under highway 218. H... (more)

Union Pacific's busy (note the yellow signal for the eastbound main, indicating another train is imminent) triple-track mainline across Nebraska sees a lot of rail traffic, with a substantial numb... (more)

A pair of NS SD60E's lead empty coal train 539 as it begins its descent of the west slope of the Alleghenies. Two SD40E helpers are on the rear to assist the train as it approaches Cresson.

An Eastbound manifest grinds up the hill at Cresson with helpers on the rear. The train is seen passing the soon ti be removed intermediate signals at Milepost 252.6.

Four SD40-2’s are digging into the grade as they bring a westbound manifest out of Altoona at Slope. It is most likely that the lead two units are helpers.

A Worm With An Identity Crises. UP 5288 leads a 13,000-ton, loaded grain train carefully down Clear Creek Ravine and past the long abandoned Tunnel 4 on the 5,900-foot long train's decent t... (more)

Short trackage rights slop freight 362 winds down the steep Racoon Mountain grade as it gets closer and closer to it's destination of DeButts Yard in Chattanooga. Heavy thunderstorms have just hit... (more)

Fall in Alaska can be spectacular if not short and catching something other than a passenger train in Healy Canyon during the daylight hours is a treat. During the Fall and it is even a bigger bon... (more)