The late 90's for the BNSF seen them extremely power short. With the merger the power ended up scattered all over hell. A person didn't know what to expect with the passage of the next train. Here... (more)

Classic Santa Fe in the 90s. Pretty red and silver units pulling intermodal around a nice curve. The curve west of Chillicothe has always been a fan favorite for many years. Recent times, the curv... (more)

An Alliance, TX, to Willow Spring, IL, Z-train (kind of) drops downgrade into Dahinda and over the Spoon River on the BNSF Chillicothe Sub. The train is roughly 165 miles from Chicago.

A land barge California bound stacker crosses over at Stronghurst at 40mph. The train is working west on the Chillicothe Sub. With 4 units here, 4 units in middle, and thousands of feet of intermo... (more)

In the 90s, Amtrak actually serviced a purpose. They ran trains and hauled some mail. Here, the Southwest Chief roars east at Stronghurst on the Chili Sub with a decent size train. Scanned Slide f... (more)

Back in 2006, a pair of 40's rumble out of Davis Jct. on the IC&E with the Chicago Clearing to Huron manifest train. Here the train passes under highway 72 on the westside of town.

A McCook to Los Angeles auto train has just passed an eastbound intermodal train near Dahinda on the Chilli Sub. Pair of blue and yellow charge west towards next crew change at Fort Madison, IA, i... (more)

I shot a lot of SP trains around Galesburg in the mid-90s. One thing I didn't get leading were these Colt Belt Dash 8s. Here, a pair of them lead a westbound SP train over the ATSF Chili Sub towar... (more)

A covered hopper train heads East over the Rockville bridge at dusk with a GE AC44C6M leading. As the sun sets, the Susquehanna River reflects the sky's vibrant orange and red colors. The Rockvill... (more)

The Green One NS 6800, the only locomotive of its kind, sits in Rose Yard along with some other EMDs.

I shot this at Wilsmere Yard near Wilmington DE on July 8, 1978. A Baltimore & Ohio SW1, circa 1940, and a former Chesapeake & Ohio NW2, about nine years newer, sit next to a boxcar with a roof ha... (more)

Ronceverte Refreshments: AMTK 160, the Pepsi Can, leads the westbound Cardinal through Ronceverte, West Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.

Last of its Kind NS 8688 is the last GE Dash 8 on Norfolk Southern's fleet, and it'll probably stay that way for a while. Though it was retired in the late 2000s, this C39-8E found a new l... (more)

NS Pumpkin WFRX 8871 is one of 30 former BNSF SD70MACs leased by Norfolk Southern to help with its recent power shortage. Word on the street is that these units will soon be returning to t... (more)