As a condition of the UP/MP/WP merger, trackage rights were granted to D&RGW over the former MP between Pueblo and Kansas City. That is why this black and gold mountain climber is leading a westb... (more)
I grew up on the Western Railway of Alabama, where a local was generally a geep and a couple dozen cars, so when the Illmo agent told me the local would be pulling into the yard in a few minutes, ... (more)
A westbound empty coal train pulls out of the passing siding at Cliff.
BLE 906 working in Mt. Pulaski before continuing their journey to Peoria, IL from Decatur.
The soaring mountains of the front range are behind this loaded eastbound coal train but it is still on solid 2% downgrade as it approaches Leydon siding on the outskirts of Denver.
The view from the rear helper on a westbound grain train, the head end is about to enter tunnel 1.
DMIR SD40T-2 #404, DMIR SD40T-2 #409, and CN SD40-2W #5338 lead a taconite train through Proctor, MN towards the ore docks in Duluth, MN. Photo taken 2/13/19.
Dressed in parent company Watco's sharp black & yellow scheme, Swan Ranch Railroad EMDs 4155 (ex-D&RGW SD40T-2 5395) and 4200 (ex-KCS SD40 625) switch a cut of tank cars inside the Swan Ranch Indu... (more)
The UP local out of Estherville works south towards Eagle Grove on the Estherville Sub in northwestern Iowa. At Emmetsburg the line crosses the old Milwaukee Road line from Mason City to Sheldon, ... (more)
NYS&W idles near the railroad's sand tower at the Ridgefield Park engine facility. View is from the U.S. Route 46 overpass.
Lunch for the crew. Saturday run with a pickup from Cortland based CL-1. Time to pickup my son from SUNY Cortland and head back to Long Island.
An eastbound Southern Pacific train passes through Tunnel 5 as it ascends the Tehachapi grade.
SP 8232 leads Rio Grande 3104 out of tunnel 3 on Tehachapi Pass.
SP and Rio Grand tunnel motors idle on the pads at dusk. This is SP's Roseville engine facility looking southeast on a late fall evening.
