Sometimes the shadow can be your friend. I like how the ground guy's shadow it prefect in on the ground and how the motorman is working on flipping the trolley pole for direction change in this sh... (more)

The Iowa Northern ran a passenger special out of south out of Waterloo on Good Friday. The trip went from Bryant Yard in Waterloo to the end of the property at Cedar Rapids for investors and accou... (more)

The Iowa Northern ran a passenger special out of south out of Waterloo on Good Friday. The trip went from Bryant Yard in Waterloo to the end of the property at Cedar Rapids for investors and accou... (more)

An empty ethanol train out of Memphis, TN, off the UP, works back west towards western Iowa to spot at the originating location where the train was 1st loaded. CN has new business that is running ... (more)

The Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids has some cool neon signs that make for a nice backdrop at night. I am done and have the power parked for the night at our yard office after making our Manches... (more)

Buried deep in the Cumberland Mountains in the western tip of Virginia is the Hagan Switchback. This area is a remote section of the CSXT Cumberland Valley Sub between Loyall and Big Stone Gap. He... (more)

Buried deep in the Cumberland Mountains in the western tip of Virginia is the Hagan Switchback. This area is a remote section of the CSXT Cumberland Valley Sub between Loyall and Big Stone Gap. He... (more)

A 110 car loaded coal train out of the Resource Mine west of Loyall, KY, bound for the power plant at Terrell, NC, is just west of Olinger. The train rumbles along thru the beautiful Powell River ... (more)

The South Atlantic and Ohio railroad constructed tracks through the Natural Tunnel in 1893. Today this is part of the NS Appalachia District and Nature Tunnel State Park. CSXT operates trains over... (more)

An absolutely spectacular spot on the Kingsport Sub is this location called Skaggs. This spot is in a remote part of the Breaks Interstate Park, and was accessed by a long walk. Here we have a Nor... (more)

Loaded coal for the power plant at Terrell, NC, passes over the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River at Elkhorn City. In a 2x2 DP setup, 4 GE locomotives work these 108 loads down the Big Sandy and... (more)

Loaded coal for the power plant at Terrell, NC, passes over the Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River at Elkhorn City. In a 2x2 DP setup, 4 GE locomotives work these 108 loads down the Big Sandy and... (more)

Back in 2017 we find a set of 5 units on this City of Industry to Global 4 Z-train as it passes thru Edelstein on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. The BNSF is doing a good job of hosing this hot UP train... (more)

In March major flooding went on with the Missouri River around Omaha and south. The BNSF Creston Sub was out of service during the flooding. During this time Amtrak's California Zephyr was schedu... (more)

A empty grain from Dalhart TX, to Sterling, IL, passes the iconic coaling tower at DeKalb on the UP Geneva Sub. Glad UP went and painted alot of these older AC coal motors, they look nice now in t... (more)