An eastbound sails past a pair of UP standard block signals that once were ubiquitous from the Missouri River to the west coast. MNPCB-19 has an assortment of power this spring day, including Cott... (more)

After a crew change in Fremont, NE, westbound 2IAPOS3-07 starts its journey out the Council Bluffs Sub toward North Platte. In the power consist are two C&NW Dash9 and two UP SD60Ms on this early ... (more)

A dog's breakfast lashup rolls into Fremont, NE, heading south on the BNSF line from Sioux City, IA to Ashland, NE. With the leader are an ex-Metro North B23-7, a BN GP39E and Santa Fe GP60M.

You can bet it's a raw day on the high plains of Wyoming as a westbound rounds the curve climbing Como hill, near Hanna. Teamed with the unpatched C&NW leader is a Conrail Dash8-40CW and a pair of... (more)

Twelve thousand ton MNPSTB-27 rolls downgrade on No.3 track between Red Buttes and Laramie, WY on a chilly early spring day. Trailing the 9283 are SP 9337, an SD45T-2, the 8002, a patched B39-8, a... (more)

BN 9596 leads an empty set near Antioch, NE, east of Alliance in the Sandhills. Behind the SD70MAC are a former BN SD40-2 and AT&SF C30-7 in Heritage I colors.

It seems that before the mega-mergers of the 90s dogcatching was a relatively rare episode in getting trains over the road. Thereafter, it became commonplace and a limo service was as necessary in... (more)

Out in the vast Nebraska sandhills near where the time zone changes from central to mountain, BNSF 9729 brings yet another coal train downgrade towards Thedford. The pair of SD70MACs look resplend... (more)

CR 6640 is paired with the 6616, one of the unusual C32-8s. These units were re-painted gray and lettered for "Ballast Express" in the late nineties. The train of empty Penna. Power & Li... (more)

Symbol freight ALPI-9F consists of 77 gondolas laden with steel slabs as it roars through the interlocking at MG. The 3328 is followed by an SD50 and Dash8-40CW and there are three SD40s shoving o... (more)

Last night I dreamed I was in searchlight signal heaven, oh what a beautiful sight. All the signals had softly glowing incandescent bulbs and no harsh LED lights, wah wah wah / and they were prope... (more)

The 4710 brings an ethanol train over the summit of the long climb from the Rio Grande valley at Dalies, NM, junction with the old main line via Albuquerque, seen diverging in the foreground.

BNSF 8260 East has an interesting array of power as it climbs the grade towards Mountainair.

A rainy spring morning in Huntingdon, PA has CR 6167 West crossing over from No.2 to No.1 track. The former Hunt Block Station still stands, although its US&S electro-pneumatic control machine as ... (more)

It's March of 1996 and big changes are to come along the former C&NW mainline in western Iowa. C&NW had single-tracked the railroad west of Dennison, IA and it had become quite a bottleneck that U... (more)