The blast furnaces at US Steel's Edgar Thomson Works are always hungry. Running around the clock they survive on a steady diet of iron ore, and the Union has another load of ore to feed the beasts... (more)

When the CN Executive Train ran in Iowa in October the CN also had their Geometry Train in the state touring the railroading. I kind of thought it would be cool to get the trains passing since Iow... (more)

Wampum, Pennsylvania: A small town of 717 residents - the hometown of a former infamous Major League Baseball player, a current National Hockey League defenseman, and is mentioned in the 19... (more)

The third section of a 150-car Canadian National coal train travels up the Luscar Industrial Spur near Cadomin, Alberta, on August 8, 2016. The train will soon be loading at the Luscar Mine loadou... (more)

One of the greenest seasons I've ever seen in the Tehachapi's was back in February 2016, after a ton of rainfall dropped on the mountain that January, and then in early February there was a lot of... (more)

The eastbound Rocky Mountaineer Railtours passenger train passes below Skihist Provincial Park over Canadian Pacific tracks on September 25, 2015. On the other side of the Thompson River, a Canadi... (more)

A grey ghost on a gray day. With the snow tapering the L-593 leaves northern Minnesota behind as it travels south to back to Proctor. The L-593 is a turn that runs out of Proctor, MN up to Keenan ... (more)

Early in the morning at Alta, CA, four big SD45s are cut into an SP eastbound to help lift this big manifest up the western slope of Donner Pass.

A nice matched pair of EMDs head west along the shores of the Athabasca River with CN's class SD70I leading the way.

Pipeline in the morning
Fog rolling off the Clark Fork dissipates into the warmth of a rising sun and swirls around Montana Rail Link’s westbound day gas local arriving at Pipeline at ... (more)

A pair of CN's newest additions to their motive power roster hustle a loaded potash train towards Jasper for a crew change.

Blue and orange
A manifest freight led by Montana Rail Link SD70ACe No. 4400 works through Lombard Canyon just west of Lombard, Montana, on the afternoon of June 25, 2016. Three blue ACe... (more)

With two main line tracks occupied a bit south of Tower 60, a northbound grain empty flashes past us on the track that leads to the ex-Katy line now known as the "Choctaw Sub."

Westbound stack train CN 101 crossing the Thompson River at MP 59.5 CN Ashcroft Sub Basque, BC Canada. Smoke below the clouds from wildfires to the Northeast darken the sky.

With the sun rising on another beautiful day, CN 473 crawls out of Moncton, heading through Berry Mills, westbound towards Joffre, PQ.