Bozeman pass, known across the country as one of the more iconic mountain passes that trains traverse, sees a local once a week with some of the last GP35 locomotives left in operation. On this su... (more)

For all of its active life as a station and interlocking tower, the Clare Depot sat in the wye between Ann Arbor and C&O mains. Today, it has been moved down the C&O a ways and further from the tr... (more)

Conway Scenic 216 waiting patiently for its turn to take tourists for scenic train trip .

My father was out on a late 1960s winter's day chasing a Reading Ramble when he photographed Reading GP35 3624 - C424 5204 - GP30 3602 leading a coal train off of the Bethlehem Branch into Allento... (more)

A former Western Pacific GP35 leads the Reno Local south toward its namesake on a warm August morning in 1987.

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local drops back to the Fifth Subdivision main line with eight tank cars from the petroleum facility at Logan, Montana, on June 26, 2017. Milwaukee Road’s line to Bozem... (more)

A Eastbound goes through East Williams Junction in the fall of 1988. Photo taken from my Friend Dons Airplane

Three EMDs, two GEs, and two Alcos lead a westbound train through the former Reading yard at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, the Alcos are leaving their Allentown home for the las... (more)

Pastureland along Montana Rail Link’s Harrison branch is verdant green on June 22, 2015, as MRL’s 844 local brings three covered hoppers upgrade to the Harrison Elevator Company at the end of ... (more)

A pair of GP35's on the Montana Rail Link's Bozeman Local smoke it up as they work the east end of the yard in Bozeman, Montana and put together their train to take west towards Logan.

MRL 405 handles switching chores at Three Forks, MT where the Montana Rail Link serves a talc plant and this grain loadout. This local handles business from Logan to Whitehall, MT with occasional ... (more)

MRL 405 puts the finishing touches on its local west to Whitehall, MT at Logan yard while an eastbound BNSF manifest freight crosses the Gallitan River on the MRL mainline. The Gallitan, Madison a... (more)

BNSF 2530 (GP35) arrives in Hudson under heavy snow with a load of oil cans which it will swap for another string at the Hudson Terminal, then head back to Denver.

BN 2505 (X-GN GP35) and two X-NP GP9s have a Seattle to Everett and points north train in tow along Puget Sound at Meadowdale, just north of Edmonds prior to sunset. I experimented with an orange ... (more)

I think all of us at some point ask ourselves if what we are doing is worth it. In my case, driving for hours in awful road conditions for a long hood forward geep? After Montana was slammed with ... (more)