Two years ago today (June 12th), the swollen Cedar River took down CRANDIC's downtown bridge and ... (more)

Two years ago on June 12th, floods hit Iowa hard. In Ft. Madison, IA, a sl... (more)

On June 12th, 2008, floods hit Iowa hard. Here, a maintenance "train" descends into the bottoms of Burlington, Iowa, where the Mississippi River still sits over much of the Burlington riverside y... (more)

W.D. Shaw's prior photo inspired me to dig up this same view from almost 20 years ago. Sure looks better now ...!

UP 6936 and the other locomotives and cars on display for Franklin Park Railroad Daze are waiting for clearance back into Canadian Pacific's diesel facility. It appears from the exhaust that CP... (more)

ArcelorMittal switcher 153 pushes scrap gons into the plant, while another MTSX switcher waits to use the switches. On the left, a CP train bends onto the IHB, while an Amtrak Wolverine approaches... (more)

The Nebraska Zephyr takes the weekend off.

Arriving in East Chicago, IN, after a short jaunt from Riverdale, IL, NS 5333 crosses the NS Chicago Line and an EJ&E industrial track to join the IHB tracks. It will shortly drop its four loaded... (more)

ArcelorMittal 153 has been around this plant for some time, in various paint schemes. Today it's shuttling scrap gondolas around the southwest boundary of the plant.

CP Hick can be a busy place, but it can't get much busier than five moving trains at once. From farthest to nearest:

1. Westbound Canadian Pacific trackage rights auto rack train m... (more)

ArcelorMittal 301 rolls out of the plant with fresh ingots, hot out of the moulds. You can see the heat distortion best off the cars near the back. When this train got near, the ambient temperat... (more)

This ballast car proclaims to be 48 years old (or 58 years old, depending on which you believe). Including its Atlantic Coast Line Heritage, much of its history is visible, both literally and imp... (more)

NS 5333 has brought four hot bottles from ArcelorMittal's Riverdale, IL, plant and is placing them for processing at the massive lakeside plant complex in East Chicago. This was an active Saturda... (more)

NS 5333 has just spotted four fresh bottles of molten iron in the ArcelorMittal Plant complex, and the crew begins to switch and weave their way back to home trackage.

Westchester Yard in the Bronx (on approach to La Guardia). Notice the Amtrak NE Corridor sneaking by in the background. Also, in the foreground, there are games being played on both baseball/sof... (more)