Lake Superior & Ishpeming U25C no. 2501 sits on display under their ore dock at Presque Isle, near Marquette, MI, while CEFX 1004 and mate handle dock duties. At present, all ore is mined at the T... (more)

BNSF 7377 leads a Montana Rail Link grain train west over the causeway west of Trout Creek, MT along the Clark Fork. The main river has open water, but the frog pond is frozen over and covered wit... (more)

Before the advent of Santa Fe's Super Fleet GP60Ms, Santa Fe ran locos like these GP39s and SD40-2s on their hottest transcontinental trains. The EMDs reflect on their future in the presence of a ... (more)

Traveling south from Chewela, WA with the overnight turn from Spokane rolls through Clayton, WA with a nice quintet of nearly matched power, led by a GP39E, then three GP60Bs, trailed by a GP60M. ... (more)

The second morning crew followed the first crew to Tilden Mine with another ore train for loading. This crew used a pair of CEFX GEs and is shown rolling by the presently closed Empire Mine en rou... (more)

With a tight market for lease locomotives due to traffic levels on most North American railroads, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming continues to utilize its shrinking fleet of former BN U30Cs as a vit... (more)

Less than a year before shutting down their Pacific extension, Milwaukee Road crews in the West made a valiant effort to keep things moving. Here a pair of SD10s support a trio of SD40-2s on their... (more)

UP 8444 gets a going over at La Grande yard near the station after spending the day handling a passenger special from Portland, OR. Tomorrow the train heads west to Pendleton for their annual Roun... (more)

One of Sound Transit's morning runs from Everett to Seattle arrives at Edmonds, WA for a station stop. The run has a waterfront view nearly all the way from Everett to King St. Station. It makes a... (more)

Train 2, CP's Canadian waits in the hole on top of Kicking Horse Pass while a westbound sulfur train rolls by. The mid-train remotes are passing by the Canadian's power, using a radio control car ... (more)

ATSF 6302, a GE U23B, shares space at Corwith diesel shops with FM and older EMD power between runs. About this time the Santa Fe began to experiment with the yellow/blue war bonnet scheme that wo... (more)

BNSF 6988 eases an eastbound stack train around the curve east of Monitor, WA on the last lap into Wenatchee for a crew change.Could not have asked for a nicer October day.

BNSF 6310 leads an eastbound coal empty across the causeway at the frog pond at Trout Creek, MT with fall in the foreground and winter just above in the background. This is part of Montana Rail Li... (more)

BNSF 8204 and a former BNSF SD75M leads the afternoon all rail ore train empties (plus some manifest) west on the Canadian National at Goose Lake, near Eagle Mills, MI. The Former C&NW line typica... (more)

It will be a tough start to a long journey for the Canadian as it prepares to leave Vancouver, BC's VIA station for Toronto and Montreal. With blizzard conditions in Vancouver and through the Fras... (more)