BNSF 8086 brings up the rear of an oil train as it rolls by a westbound grain train led by BNSF 5087 at Kootenay Falls. A crew member is re-entering the cab after inspecting the train rolling by. ... (more)

A pair of SDP40Fs in the later styling head up the Coast Starlight as it prepares for departure from Seattle's King St. Station. The units are blocking the southbound main track, thus a BN transfe... (more)

A Santa Fe intermodal train slows for the Rock Island crossing at Joliet, IL. The westbound train is on the Santa Fe mainline out of Chicago, shared at this point with Illinois Central Gulf. Power... (more)

Four Boeing 737 fuselages get their first ride via rail on a J train headed west towards Renton, WA on Montana Rail Link at the Frog Pond, Trout Creek, MT.

The stillness of the Frog Pond near Trout Creek allows for a nice reflection as BNSF 6310 leads an eastbound coal empty across the causeway on Montana Rail Link.

CP 8797 heads east from Sparwood with its freight along Michel Creek east of Natal. Soon the train will be climbing Crowsnest Pass into Alberta.

CP 8797 leads an eastbound freight through Hosmer, BC en route to Sparwood and Crowsnest Pass.

BNSF 4541 smokes it up as it gets under way with a westbound grain train near Bottle Bay, across from Sand Point, ID. The train is headed for Hauser, ID.

BNSF ACe's 9062 and 9206 give a shove as DPUs to a loaded westbound coal train east of Garrison, MT. The train has just descended Mullan Pass and is headed to Missoula, MT for a crew change.

CR 5023, a B23-7 has the lead on two Dash 8-40Bs handling a coil train from the Burns Harbor area through Porter, IN on its way east. A CP trackage rights train waits its turn to divert off the CR... (more)

LMX 8546 leads an A-B-A consist of GEs on a run through freight off the Burlington Northern, heading east through Porter, IN on Conrail's mainline to Elkhart, IN. This type of consist was pretty m... (more)

A Detroit Edison coal train is parked at Lowellville, OH presumably on PLE trackage. The U30Cs and SD40s borrowed EMD's demo scheme from the SD45 era circa 1966.

BLE 871 and 862 are parked outside their diesel shops at Albion, PA. The BLE chose a unique headlight setup for the short hood, and also had unique sand fillers in the nose.

Penn Central SW1500 no. 9224 is parked at Ashland Avenue with NYC caboose 21023. This trackage, or at least some of it belongs to the Chicago River and Indiana Railroad, one of several transfer ro... (more)

The nasty March weather is fitting for the condition of Rock Island 265, a GE U28B locomotive. The unit is waiting ist next assignment at the Rock Island engine facility at Inver Grove Heights, MN... (more)