Under towering stratocumulus cloud small GM's 146 and 190 take a ballast train for Portarlington over the River Barrow. Dating from 1962 and 1966 respectively, these locos are on borrowed time wit... (more)

Running neck and neck into Wellingborough, 60 018 on 6F93 13.06 St.Pancras - Ketton empty cement paces 43046 leading the 12.25 St.Pancras - Sheffield just as a cloud shadow clears! The 60 is runni... (more)

Scotrail liveried class 90 021, on hire to NXEA, propels the 11.00 Liverpool Street - Norwich over Cattawade Creek at low tide.

The 50th anniversary of the class 40's saw this Birmingam New Street - Lowestoft railtour pass Manningtree in fine spring sunshine. The class 40's were originally introduced on the London - Norwic... (more)

After a heavy overnight snowfall, the sun is rapidly melting it fast as you would expect in April! The first up train of the Sunday morning, the 08.40 Wolverhampton - Euston has 57 301 dragging th... (more)

The sun comes out from a gap in the storm clouds as 60 048 'Eastern' crosses the River Nene on a Forders Sidings - Bescot engineers train conveying redundant track panels.

Like veritable streetcars, coal trains, both loaded and empty, pound Union Pacific's rails through Lusk, the largest town in Niobrara County. Approaching the US 18/85 overpass are more empties hea... (more)

A pair of SD60s suffice for moving these coal empties back to Glendive Yard, seen passing the entrance to the North Dakota Badlands National Park.

A westbound engineers train for Glendive snakes through the North Dakota Badlands behind a pair of Heritage 1 liveried SD40-2s. An entirely appropriate description as I nearly stood on a rattler h... (more)

Grain loads behind six big 6-axle units pass welders working on track 3 at Tie Siding. Despite the azure sky it is still a typically windy day in the High Plains.

The action is pretty continuous at Cheyenne and the view off the bridge overlooking the depot is always worth a look as trains stop in pretty much the ideal position when changing crews. A uniform... (more)

The setting sun turns a Crawford helper set gold as they return to base after assisting another coal train as far as Belmont. The pair of former Santa Fe SD75M's and BN SD60M were representative o... (more)

The late afternoon shadows are creeping towards the tracks as a loaded coal approaches the first horseshoe curve on the climb of Crawford Hill. I can highly recommend a stay at the Ponderosa Ranch... (more)

The engineer of lead SD70MAC 8943 can view the rear Crawford helper set assisting his load of coal, from the PRB, across the valley. Formed from former BN SD60Ms and Warbonnet SD75Ms the Crawford ... (more)

Normally employed in coal service, its seems very odd to see a SD70MAC on a short local trip working, in this case the first of the day from Coors on a Saturday morning back to Denver.