A colorful array of Wheeling & Lake Erie locomotives bring train 228 east toward the small village of Smithville along the railroad's Brewster Sub on the hottest day of the 2018 Memorial Day weeke... (more)

A pair of CSX autorack trains, Q241 on the left and Q243 on the right, depart Walbridge Yard side by side. Both trains will make right turns once they reach Fostoria with Q243 following Q241. Even... (more)

A pair of Indiana Rail Road SD9043MACs pass an oil derrick in a field sprawling with spring flowers. The two locomotives are powering an eastbound train of freight from Palestine, IL to INRD's mai... (more)

A trio of Illinois Central SD70s lead a healthy A408 south through the small community of Ludlow, IL on CN's Chicago Sub, the former Illinois Central 'Mainline of Mid-America'. IC SD70s are the co... (more)

A pair of Wisconsin & Southern trains swap power in the small yard in Ackerville, WI along Canadian National's former Wisconsin Central main line. This view is from the Route 164 overpass which sp... (more)

MRL's Day Gas local heads eastbound through the small village of Perma, MT along the Tenth Sub. The Thank You Veterans unit is in the trailing position.

A trio of orange units lead a loaded coal train across the Austin Creek Trestle at Skyline, deep in Mullan Pass on Montana Rail Link's Third Sub. This was the first train routed over Mullan after ... (more)

NS 4000 gallops through CP 307 in Swanton during a moderate snowfall on New Years Eve a few years ago with train 20E. This was the location where, about six months prior to this photo, a westbound... (more)

Steam encompasses Pere Marquette 1225 as it idles in the cold morning air while crews prepare it to head up the Curwood Highlander excursion to Owosso.

In the early morning hours of December 3, 2022, the Newberry Road bridge west of Durand, MI on the CN Flint Sub caught fire and burned to the ground. The news came as a shock to both myself and ma... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific grain train enters Buttermilk Curve on the east side of the village of Brady. An evening spent here produced a number of westbounds and a couple eastbounds. The next day,... (more)

The Day Gas skirts the banks of the Clark Fork River not long after departing Thompson Falls. In the five previous trips I'd taken to the MRL, this was my first time exploring much of the line wes... (more)

The main reason for my visit to the CN Dubuque Sub in northeastern Iowa was to witness the topography of the railroad first hand. I was amazed how much the railroad follows the contour of the land... (more)

CN's rather elusive Council Bluffs local heads west through the broad curve at Woodbine with a nice pair of former Oakway SD60s leading. Union Pacific's Boone Subdivision can be seen in the backgr... (more)

A unit grain train motors through the rural community of Bushnell, NE along UP's Sidney Sub not far from the border of Wyoming. A closer look reveals a wave from one of the crew members inside the... (more)