After climbing Goffs Hill for the last hour and a half, this heavy Galesburg, IL to Barstow, CA manifest crest the top of the 1.5% grade as it begins to pick up speed on the last leg of journey fr... (more)

One of the many intermodal trains that traverse the Mojave Desert grinds up the 1% grade of Goffs Hill at Essex on BNSF's Needles Subdivision.

DPU's on a southbound coal train for Duke Energy at Brice shove through Toecane on the former Clinchfield, with the Seaboard heritage unit bringing up the rear.

We have ex-503 (nee-B&M 315) leading ex-501 (nee-MILW 184) and the as-yet-unlettered 3001 (SD45 shell, Tacoma Rail 3001 nee-PRR 6237) which is fresh from interchange in Sebring. Six axle power is... (more)

Easing off of the Compass Branch onto the main, CSX 3468 leads 130 loads of coal that were just loaded at Arch's Sentinel Mine bound for Toledo Ohio.

The first of many such arrangements to come, three of four new repaints for US Sugar. We have ex-503 (nee-B&M 315) leading ex-501 (nee-MILW 184) and the as-yet-unlettered 3001 (SD45 shell, Tacoma... (more)

And just like that, the quiet little sugar operation just became famous again. Prior to 2020, you had to know what & where this was to enjoy it. The arrival of a steam locomotive put them on &qu... (more)

With the end of duty for these old B&O CPL’s comes nigh, the replacement for the signaling system is just out of site transferring from a dispatcher controlled line to a TWC line with a broken r... (more)

Hard to believe we're already into the 3400s! CN AC44C6M 3407 is eastbound at Wynd.

Nickel Plate Road 765 storms into Ray on a photo runby with its passenger train.

As the first rain in several weeks is showering the West Virginia Mountains as a severe drought has plagued the region recently, we see A&O local Z830 bringing two loads of lumber from JF Allen ba... (more)

A loaded sand train heads up the hill at Bickerdike behind a recent SD75I > SD75IACC rebuild program graduate.

Low profile view of one of CN's new SD75IACCs at Edson, AB. These engines look great!

OMLX 420 is on the point of a westbound NKCR train at Elise, NE.

A work consist is shoving west to the point where they last dropped ties for the upcoming resurfacing of this NS line. The power car appears to be a modified GP38 of some sort the railroad seems ... (more)