The home of the locomotive.

"Lots of color" has been a common theme all winter so far for the CN in Iowa. Seeing CN power some weeks is almost non-existence with the on going power shortage. Here the daily Waterloo... (more)

All the colorful paint schemes of the ATN are present today as the Z390 does its usual maneuver of parking in downtown Birmingham as it waits for CSX to allow them into their yard.

Q409 with a quartet of BNSF motors, crosses the Susquehanna River.

Here I was lucky to get an Oakway on the point of a train, descending the upper horseshoe. Trailing units are SD40-2 7268, SF30C 9546, C30-7 5068 and SD40-2P KCS 616.

An eastbound Gateway Western Railway freight skirts by Santa Fe Junction as a westbound Union Pacific freight passes overhead on the approach to the Kaw River Bridge at Kansas City, Missouri, on S... (more)

Eastbound 5354 running as Converse Norfolk Southern Coal meets Kansas City Roper Quality train KCRVQ led by Santa Fe 942

ALCOs meet at Bridge 60.

A former BN veteran sits in the yard in Galesburg. Power from three different counties cane be seen here.

ALCOs at rest: C425 (ex NY&LE), RS32,C425,C425.

“Dog’s Breakfast”
Whatever else might be said of GTI in the 80’s (typically rather negative), they certainly could concoct some interesting power lashups (at least in pain... (more)

BNSF 2358 is another power unit with an interesting history. This unit was built in 1972 for the Saint Louis-San Francisco Railroad and then hired on with the Burlington Northern before being mer... (more)

NS train 15T comes south with a colorful lashup representing 4 major railroads.

A rainbow of locomotives power BNSF’s Pasco to Kansas City freight west of Avon, Montana, at 11:10 a.m. on September 12, 2010. Powering the 80-car train eastbound toward a climb over Mullan Pass... (more)

Borrowed KCS and NS Power has been utilized by FWWR To send a few frac sand trains over to Texas Pacifico. The used locomotives are seen at one of the several loco tracks at the FWWR Hodge yard.