The new face of the Missabe ore trains looks like this, and I'm still trying to decide whether I like it or not.

20,000 tons of ore pellets descend the 3% grade into Two Harbors with four veteran EMD work horses on the point.

Happy birthday, America!

The sun begins to make an appearance after hours of darkness, just in time for Eastern Washington Gateway's "Scoot" to trot West at 10-per with three venerable EMD's and 30 empty hoppers... (more)

Gliding along the banks of the beautiful Kootenay River, engineer J.S. Pinkston has his 115-car Beltrami, MN to Kalama, WA grain train easily under control.

For only the second time in the last 20 years, UP brought out their rotaries to fight the Sierra Cement over Donner Pass. The newly rebuilt rotary #207 enters the shed at Norden.

A tranquil scene at the blue hour is disrupted by a grain train swimming upstream and into another typical Hauser meltdown. I'd photograph this train at 16:46 and when I went to bed the next morni... (more)

CP's Kenmare Wayfreight battles the blizzard of 2016 near Carpio.

An Eastbound stack train glides along the Athabasca River at Swan Landing.

A shaggy golden retriever wears a look of despair, waiting for her owner to arrive and bring her in from the frigid cold, paying no attention to the pair of Montreal Locomotive Works veterans pass... (more)

The thunderous roar of two EMD 16-645E3's fills the cold Winter air as engineer RD Albrightson notches his two SD40-2's out to keep the 23 loads of charcoal, grain, oats and propane at the posted ... (more)

UP 8813 West and company roar down the 2.65% grade of the #1 track through Newcastle with 12,321 tons of manifest from Roper, UT to Roseville, CA on the drawbars.

Amtrak Cascades train No. 504 races North through Vader, WA passing an apple tree on a gorgeous Fall afternoon.

Life changed for the family of Glenn Steele on February 24, 2015 when his Southbound Metrolink train derailed after striking a pickup truck hauling a trailer. The trailer wedged itself under the p... (more)

STMA's Plummer Turn is on the return to the railroad's namesake town with 29 cars on the drawbars of the two former Milwaukee Road GP9's.