With a heavy snow storm well under way, a Dash 9 and a Dash 8 from BNSF and CSX, respectively, pull an empty unit gondola train upgrade through Kirkwood, MO. This move originated in Avard, OK, whe... (more)

An empty BNSF contaminated dirt train grinds uphill at Quinette Road during the St. Louis metro area's first snowstorm of the season.

An empty dirt train heads for the Canadian Pacific connection at the Port of Albany via Selkirk Yard. The 91 empty gons are heading back to Ft Edward, NY to get another load of river sludge from t... (more)

Empty sludge train rolls through CP-VO

Three CNW motors lead 82 cars of dirty dirt through Lake Point at a steady 15 mph on July 26, 1996.

Three visitors from the east lead a Avard, OK bound "dirty dirt" train west through Ellinor. CSX picks up unit trains of contaminated dirt from the Hudson River and ships it west to Chicago to int... (more)

It doesn't take much imagination to think this shot is from the 1980's what with those 3 matched and gleaming SD40N's. But, those blue ECDC hazardous material containers spoil the 1980's look. Thi... (more)

A 98 car empty sludge train is on its way back to Ft Edward, NY for more loads of PCB tainted mud from the Hudson River dredging project. The train came off the CSX at Kenwood Yard at the Port of ... (more)

It had to happen sooner or later. The last run of the last "pure" unpatched and un renumbered D&RGW unit on the Union Pacific. Fittingly it was on the Dirt Train local out of Helper, Utah. My frie... (more)

The Union Pacific runs its LDP45 local a couple of times a week. This is the well known “dirt train” local out of the yard at Helper, Utah. Normally the train runs east on the Green River Sub ... (more)

It is a spectacular clear and bright early fall day in the Last Frontier and the birch trees are have already turned and the higher peaks of the Chugach are already dusted in show. This shot was ... (more)

Montana Rail Link's Dirt Local heads east on the evening of September 22. With the conclusion of the Milltown Dam removal, the last loads of dirt will roll east on Thursday.

DRGW 5371, the last "pure" Rio Grande unit on the UP brings it's next to last Dirt Train up the Sunnyside Sub. Just ahead is the East Carbon Development Co's hazardous waste disposal site, the des... (more)

With 13 cars of dirty dirt, UP's LJP45 local crosses Grassy Trail Creek some 2.66 miles up the Sunnyside Subdivision from Mounds.