Two former Santa Fe Warbonnet B40-8Ws, with a GP60B thrown in the middle, lead the 101 local east through Joliet.
After building their train in the Barstow yard, the Cadiz local highballs town as the crew begins their trip east in the cab of their cool, air conditioned B40-8W. Meanwhile, outside, the temperat... (more)
A Q-train from New York, NY, bound from Los Angeles, CA, has just crossed into Missouri. The train is crossing the Des Moines River and just left Iowa. Now the train has about 200 miles to KC. San... (more)
An eastbound sits at GI waiting for a hotshot westbound to crossover. Nice set of blue and yellows hammer thru GI on the westbound. GI is located on the west side of Galesburg at MP 180 on Chillic... (more)
Santa Fe style: Beneath a "standard" Santa Fe cantilever a trio of warbonnet Dash8-40BWs are wasting no time getting up to track speed as they depart the Argentine terminal. That was cla... (more)
The rain has subsided and a sold out Blackstone Valley fall excursion is about to arrive in Woonsocket to discharge its passengers before it deadheads back to Worcester.
The rain has subsided and a sold out Blackstone Valley fall excursion has just returned from Putnam to discharge its passengers.
The sun peeks out for a bit as ex-ATSF, now BNSF B40-8W No. 556 comes off of the Cemex Lead and onto the former Buckwheat Branch, now known as the Lyons Branch at Medberry in Lyons, Colorado on De... (more)
Providence & Worcester 4005 leads what could have possibly been the last long-distance excursion on the P&W. Two days later the P&W's sale to Genesee & Wyoming would be finalized. The trip ran fro... (more)
Nashville & Eastern's rock train power sits at Monterey just after sunset on this beautiful Summer evening.
Back when winters were harsh, oil trains were plentiful and locomotives were scarce. Two years later, I can safely say I'll never see a consist like this again, especially as sole power for a pri... (more)
