An Amtrak Pacific Surfliner for San Diego skirts the Pacific Ocean at Del Mar, CA on a beautiful October day.

A brand new KCS GEVO leads this westbound UP freight toward the Ferromex interchange at the Mexican border at Eagle Pass, TX.

The Cimarron Valley Railroad's turn from Dodge City proceeds west at a leisurely pace on this former Santa Fe line in southwestern Kansas. The train is led today by one of the two existing GP26s,... (more)

BNSF's local toward Amarillo continues to pull the Curtis Hill grade with an appropriate assortment of standard cab EMD locomotives. Of all the trains we saw this day on the Transcon, this was th... (more)

A BNSF westbound stack train glints the final moments of sun as it sprints across Oklahoma for southern California.

A UP Public Affairs special deadheads toward Laredo, TX behind some clean EMD and GE power as it passes a northbound in the hole at Gardendale. The Eagle Ford oil/gase shale of this area is alive... (more)

The Galveston Railroad Museum's Santa Fe painted F-units return to the museum, covering the last few hundred yards on tracks belonging to Union Pacific. The impressive structure in the rear of th... (more)

WSOR's local from Rock Springs to Madison passes a farmers field outside of Lodi, with the animals apparently unphased by the passing of an appropriately paint-schemed SD40-2.

WSOR's turn from Madison to Janesville pauses at Milton Junction to perform a block swap with T004 from Horicon to get T002 ready for the run to Chicago later in the day.

WSOR's Reedsburg Sub local heads south toward Madison, passing the outskirts of Baraboo, WI and a very nice a El Camino on a typical fall weather day in the upper midwest.

WSOR's Elkhorn Sub local switches a grain elevator at Darien, WI on a fine September day. The MILW heritage of this line is evident with the classic switchstand.

The Galveston Railroad Museum special enters the UP yard on the island as it departs from the museum on its journey to Rosenberg, TX.

The Galveston Railroad Museum special nears the end of its journey as it runs next to the bay, approaching the causeway that serves as the sole rail access to Galveston Island.

WSOR power congregates at the shops at Janesville awaiting the call to duty with the roundhouse awaiting its next patient.

A UP office car train heads south toward Laredo, TX on the namesake Laredo Sub for a week of public relations duty, seen here at Cotulla, finally seeing the sun after 60 miles of clouds.