Lilly Loads: NS 4528 leads doubled up coal train NS 596 eastbound through downtown Lilly, Pennsylvania, along the West Slope of the NS Pittsburgh Line.

Northbound UP 8188 is coming off the causeway over Lake Moredock on the UP Chester Sub. They have a high and wide load a few cars back and it's been slow going, stopping to let other trains pass.

The day Apex local heads along the former Durham & Southern spur on their way back into town.

L615 returns from Durham behind a pair of former CR and L&N GP38-2s.

The MP 14 is a rubber-tyred electric multiple unit for the Paris Métro. Manufactured by Alstom as part of the Alstom Metropolis family of units, it is the seventh generation of the rubber-tyred c... (more)

Waiting to start the workday.

Northbound approaching signal at MP41 on the River Sub.

Emerging out of the shadows lower Truxton Canyon, BNSF 7882 East leads a Los Angeles, CA to Logistic Park Chicago, IL Q-train as it battles the steep 1.4% grade towards Crozier Canyon and long cli... (more)

A Barstow, CA to Kansas City, KS manifest traverses up the 1.4% grade of Valentine, AZ as it approaches Crozier Canyon on BNSF's Seligman Subdivision.

The hot New York to LA UPS train races out of Valentine as it reaches to the track speed of 70 MPH.

Two of Metra’s SD70MACHs meet just outside of Union Station on a sunny afternoon.

A Twin Cities & Western freight arrives in downtown St. Paul, MN - today with a quartet of Geeps. The train is making its way eastward towards Union Depot, which it will pass to the south as it ma... (more)

Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls out of St. Paul, MN after completing its scheduled stop at St. Paul Union Depot downtown and is see here making its way down the Mississippi River as it begins the fi... (more)

BNSF 6688 (ES44C4) looks great in the early morning sunlight as it rolls out of St. Paul, MN with an eastbound intermodal for Chicago, seen here from the bluff at Indian Mounds Regional Park.

Norfolk & Western 611 storms westbound up the grade of the Norfolk Southern Christiansburg District with an excursion bound for Radford, VA. I was the very first person to arrive at this location.... (more)