About the only reason I shoot GEs anymore is to get the new ones before they fade and become filthy.

A strange sight for Iowa indeed.

How can you not love WC and GTW power working together? Too bad the chances of getting combos like this are becoming so rare.

This scene just works for me: the Illinois Central and a farm. I only wish the chances for shots like this weren't fading away so fast.

With the one-of-a-kind 6102 leading, DM&E train 170 slowly rolls through Lansing, IA.

It's nice to see these ore trains running again after a slumping economy kept them shut down for most of the year.

The kids got all excited when they heard the train whistle but were a little disappointed when Amtrak #8 did not come around the bend.

Early morning run up the Mississippi River for both train and barge.

DM&E 170 with the one-of-a-kind ex-IMRL 6102 in the lead on a beautiful July morning warranted a chase down the river.

Three EMDs on a Z-train in 2009? Thanks to some of the BNSF GEVOs being taken out of service, a few EMDs are back out of storage.

An hour wait for CP 486 to pull out of the yard netted a nice suprise - a GP40 leading a CP road train in 2009! I never did get 486 in sunshine (except in the background of this photo) after a wa... (more)

Priority Z-train with a nice blend of new and old power.

CN loaded ethanol train heads east across the corn fields of Northern Illinois. A few days later this area was hit with a hail storm that wiped out all the alfalfa, corn and soybeans.

CN ethanol train climbs the hill into Scales Mound and passes a reminder that some gave all.......

Such a crappy day for the run from Minneapolis to Chicago on Saturday. It didn't stop crazy railfans from driving hundreds of miles to shoot it in bad light though...... My poor attempt here was... (more)