A coal train with run through NS power glides along the waters of the Hudson River in NY at Iona Island. Note the Bear Mrn Bridge in the background.
The sun has just risen on the wide open landscape of the Powder River Basin, as a trio of BN SD70MAC's lead another in an endless parade of coal trains out the southern end of the coal fields.
A WB BNSF stack train is working hard at MP 595.1, on the long hard grade between Needles and Goffs, California on the BNSF Needles District.
A WB Z train, lead by a pair of CNW Dash 9's, makes it's way down grade through Serpentine Canyon. In the background, a violent summer t-storm is brewing, and chatter on the scanner from other tra... (more)
On a snowy December day on Donner Pass, Soda Springs, Ca was hopping with action. The Chevron tank train is on the near rail, led by a then rare to the west coast CSX SD40-2, is passed by Amtrak's... (more)
The sun is about to rise as the Coast Starlight speeds west on the SP's Cal-P line near Dixon, California.
SP 8530 is working hard at the point of an eastbound drag freight at Troy, Ca on SP's Donner Pass Line. Two more EMD's are cut in mid train to help this heavy train over one of the toughest rail l... (more)
The sun is about to set on the SP's Sunset Route, as SP 8696 speeds west with a priority pig train in southern Arizona.
The Coast Starlight
It's about time to call it a day for this North Coast crew, as they complete their switching in Willits yard. Later in the day, an SP crew will take the lumber that the NCR has brought south from ... (more)
The SP Benicia Flyer heads west across the Martinez Bridge, on it's way to Ozol Yard near Martinez.
BN 7173 West is about to depart the rails of the MRL and enter the Funnel at Sandpoint Jct.
Climbing the Grade at Yountville.
