Sierra Northern RP20GE 2638 bound for company headquarters in Oakdale.

CNW 6814 leads an eastbound freight thru Oak Creek, WI in the waning light of a beautiful November day in 1986. The train is about to go under the Ryan Road overpass on CNW's New Line.

A stack-ethanol combo train charges eastward through a sag as it splits the signals near Hackberry at sunset. Running at almost three miles long, these trains will set-out the intermodal equipment... (more)

A Fresno, CA to Aberdeen, SD empty grain train navigates through the tight curves of Crozier Canyon as it makes its the long climb up to Yampai Summit.

After climbing Goffs Hill for the last hour and a half, this heavy Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest crest the top of the 1.5% grade as it begins to pick up speed on the last leg of journey fr... (more)

One of the many intermodal trains that traverse the Mojave Desert grinds up the 1% grade of Goffs Hill at Essex on BNSF's Needles Subdivision.

DPU's on a southbound coal train for Duke Energy at Brice shove through Toecane on the former Clinchfield, with the Seaboard heritage unit bringing up the rear.

We have ex-503 (nee-B&M 315) leading ex-501 (nee-MILW 184) and the as-yet-unlettered 3001 (SD45 shell, Tacoma Rail 3001 nee-PRR 6237) which is fresh from interchange in Sebring. Six axle power is... (more)

Easing off of the Compass Branch onto the main, CSX 3468 leads 130 loads of coal that were just loaded at Arch's Sentinel Mine bound for Toledo Ohio.

The first of many such arrangements to come, three of four new repaints for US Sugar. We have ex-503 (nee-B&M 315) leading ex-501 (nee-MILW 184) and the as-yet-unlettered 3001 (SD45 shell, Tacoma... (more)

And just like that, the quiet little sugar operation just became famous again. Prior to 2020, you had to know what & where this was to enjoy it. The arrival of a steam locomotive put them on &qu... (more)

With the end of duty for these old B&O CPL’s comes nigh, the replacement for the signaling system is just out of site transferring from a dispatcher controlled line to a TWC line with a broken r... (more)

Hard to believe we're already into the 3400s! CN AC44C6M 3407 is eastbound at Wynd.

Nickel Plate Road 765 storms into Ray on a photo runby with its passenger train.

As the first rain in several weeks is showering the West Virginia Mountains as a severe drought has plagued the region recently, we see A&O local Z830 bringing two loads of lumber from JF Allen ba... (more)