A pair of swoosh painted SD40-2 locos of ATSF and BN heritage patiently wait for a signal to get back into the tracks of North yard where they'll pick up their interchange cars from NS.

Fireworks begin to fill the night sky this July 4th as one of the larger pieces of equipment at the Pueblo Railway Museum, the Baldwin Locomotive Works built 4-8-4 steam locomotive Santa Fe 2912, ... (more)

Spirit of America
One a summer night in 2016 the solo unit of CSXT 7812 pulls a 100 car empty hopper train through the stillness of Cusseta. While the outside of this unit looks like ... (more)

It’s been nearly a year since the last time A746 was captured parked overnight on the Cusseta siding with only the road number on the... (more)

The solo power that brought W987 and its special High & Wide load idles away the night this evening on the CSX-NS transfer tracks in Op... (more)

The contrasting colors between new and old wheels are easy to spot on any freight car, especially when you light them up at night. That's certainly true for this Conrad Yelvington hopper car whic... (more)

77 years ago in August of 1941, the DRGW 01416 rolled out of the Rio Grande’s Burnham shops in Denver and has spent its life riding behind trains of the famous Denver & Rio Grande Western Railro... (more)

Goodbye for now
It seemed like it would take forever for this train to finally leave Columbus after arriving there 7 hours earlier that afternoon. Any other train and I would have give... (more)

A 23 year old GE Dash9 standard cab locomotive is the leader of ballast train NS 96A which tonight finds itself tied down on the Royal City siding track. Seeing standard cab units on the NS syste... (more)

Three six axle GE locomotives make a wonderful sound as their 4 cycle engines chug along and pull the 123 cars making up tonight’s 8000 foot long Q614 train as it grinds slowly up grade through ... (more)

Fireworks rain out in the night sky as a line of EMD SD9043MAC locomotives rest on track 57 of the former Rio Grande yard in Pueblo. These units will stay parked here for over a year as they awai... (more)

A crew change is in progress for NS 298 tonight as the nose is nicely illuminated by an outbound NS 185 mixed freight. The engineer on this evening's train is one talented individual as he brough... (more)

Evening begins to set in West Point as today's A746 finds itself unable to complete the task of working all its customers. So the train with one engine and 29 cars will take a rest on the West Po... (more)

It’s been nearly two weeks since an 18-wheeler collided with A84 collided just outside of Calera. The remains of the two SD40-2 locomotives involved sit upright against the rebuilt mainline as ... (more)

CSX wasn’t the only one to make changes to train schedules in my area during 2017. Management decided to cut the daily through trains off the CofG route and instead use it as an “as needed”... (more)