A pair of clean Union Pacific GE's lead a coal train across the rolling hills of Kansas near the small farming town of Bremen.

Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 eases into Topeka for a quick service stop before continuing west to Marysville, Kan., from Kansas City.

A Southern Pacific-painted GE shoves on the rear of a westbound coal train as it leaves Kanasas City for points west.

A pair of Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP35s lead a short local into Dickinson Yard after returning north from near Alloy.

Union Pacific 4-8-4 No. 844 departs Paxton, Neb., on its way west to Cheyenne, Wyo.

A westbond autorack train leads UP's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Neb., on its way west toward Cheyenne, Wyo., on the morning of Halloween.

A rebuilt Union Pacific EMD SD40N leads a manifest eastbound near Brady, Neb., the day before Halloween 2016. There's no shortage of trains on UP's mainline east of North Platte along Route 30, bu... (more)

A UP-Ferromex unit grain train rolls eastbound through Gothenburg, Neb., on the afternoon of Oct. 30 having just left North Platte earlier in the day.

Union Pacific 844 rolls west through Gibbon, Neb., on its way to North Platte from Marysville, Kan., on Sunday, Oct. 30. Following this beautiful locomotive west from Kansas City has been nothing ... (more)

One of Norfolk Southern's DC-to-AC AC44C6M's leads NS 218 east through Prichard, W.Va., passing the state of West Virginia's Prichard intermodal facility as part of the Heartland Corridor project.... (more)

Arriving in Dickinson Yard with a few outbound cars, Kanawha River Railroad EMD GP35 No. 3921 and its crew pass a few idling locomotives on the former NS Dickinson Yard pit.

A Kanawha River Railroad Nitro-to-Dickinson freight turn heads south near Belle, W.Va., with a handful of outbound cars. WAMX 3921 is a former Western Maryland EMD GP35.

Three leased NS SD60s and an actual NS EMD SD60E lead a 100-car loaded coal train south toward London, W.Va., on Watco's new Kanawha River Railroad - formerly known as NS' West Virginia Secondary.... (more)

A quartet of leased Norfolk Southern EMD SD60s shove on the first loaded coal train to be operated by Watco's new Kanawha River Railroad in West Virginia. The short line operator has worked an agr... (more)

The first revenue run... Watco's Kanawha River Railroad makes its inaugural run across rails formerly operated by Norfolk Southern on its West Virginia Secondary. Here, WAMX 411, an EMD SD4... (more)