The Waterloo to Fort Dodge local back in 2003 was an afternoon departure out of Waterloo. Here the job bouncing along on the crappy jointed rail as they make their way west about 25 miles from For... (more)

Progress Rail 3066 sits in the rain at the Coastal Pines Technical College as thunderstorms surround the area. The locomotive was donated by Progress Rail Services and CSX for their Railroad Tech... (more)

GTW 5936 waits at Joliet UD Interlocking to enter the BNSF, eventually waiting nearly 3 hours to do so.

As an eastbound train drifts downgrade toward Altoona, an ex-Penn Central SD40 and an ex-Erie Lackawanna SD45 push a westbound up the last portion of the grade before entering the tunnel at Tunnel... (more)

Twelve thousand horsepower of GM 40-series diesels roll a westbound Canadian National manifest through Brockville, Ontario. Assisting the lead SD40 are three GP40-2W’s.

A westbound Marquette to Mason City freight train battles the curves and the grade out of the Mississippi River Valley west of Marquette. Here the train is about to MP 11 as the top is around MP 1... (more)

Here we see IMRL 4th Sub action in the form of this westbound Marquette to Mason City freight train. The train has alittle of everything for extra power from eastbounds that setout power due to th... (more)

A southbound Kansas City Southern grain train by EMD SD40 No. 633 crosses the elegant concrete viaduct over Gregory Boulevard passing through Swope Park while leaving Kansas City, Missouri, on Sep... (more)

Already stripped of its headlight and numberboards, the end is near for this former Southern SD40. Meanwhile, it’s busines as usual for its Corman owned cousins in the background, the brace of S... (more)

A SD40 and GP30 are seen MUed as a consist outside of the Soo Line's two-stall roundhouse in Gladstone, Michigan. Tom Golden photo.

A southbound Kansas City Southern grain train departs Kansas City, Missouri, at Air Line Junction led by EMD SD40 No. 633 on the morning of September 15, 1990.

CN 5090 has its new crew on board and will get underway momentarily. Its hotshot freight is holding up the arrival of the Super Continental, whose headlight is visible behind this train. No matter... (more)

A C&NW freight featuring a block of wood chip loads behind the power, rolls east through Eau Claire just minutes away from arriving at Altoona Yard. this stretch of track, part of UP's mainline be... (more)

CN 5215 crosses a bridge near Ambridge, WI in October of 1993. Ambridge is just south of Duluth/Superior. The CN only had 50 of these SD40's and it was nice to see one in the lead.

Train of TRANSAP railroad that transports chemicals and cellulose, with EMD SD40 locomotive, derail in Diuquin town, near Laja city. Only material damage fortunately, the railway workers were unin... (more)