On the afternoon of July 3, 2022, an eastbound BNSF coal empty follows the the Clark Fork between Heron and Noxon, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s scenic Fourth Subdivision.

EMD GP30 No. 4131 still looks like a Baltimore & Ohio locomotive, but the new CSX Transportation road number replacing B&O No. 6960 reveals a new life in a much bigger system. CSXT No. 4131 has ju... (more)

Working up the 2.2 percent grade of Mullan Pass, a set of four Montana Rail Link EMD SD70ACes being used as a manned helper, leans into an oil train passing through Iron Ridge cut between Austin a... (more)

An eastbound BNSF coal empty drops down the grade of Mullan Pass out of Weed, Montana, passing an old abandoned ranch on the morning of June 29, 2022.

In honor of “National Beagle Day”, (I didn’t even know this was a thing, until today…) I present a photo of our Beagle named Minturn watching a BNSF coal train climb Logan Hill in Powder R... (more)

Ice is thick enough on this part of the Clark Fork as a couple of guys try there luck ice fishing, including a warming tent for set up for comfort. Not far away on the causeway just west of Trout ... (more)

As part of the overhaul of Union Pacific AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687, the still good generator is removed from the old 4,400 hp 7FDL16 prime mover, which will be mated to its new engine. The work is bei... (more)

Denver & Rio Grande 4-6-0 No. 168 has just finished climbing the east slope of Cumbres Pass as a helper on a double-headed passenger special the afternoon of August 27, 2021. The locomotive is abo... (more)

An eastbound Montana Rail Link helper set of the usual four EMD SD70ACes, drops downgrade out of Weed, Montana, and through Iron Ridge cut on MRL’s main line over Mullan Pass on June 29, 2022. T... (more)

A serendipitous sliver of sunshine illuminates three BNSF coal trains at Converse Junction, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2022. Out on the four-track main line is a coal load that is about... (more)

Illinois Central’s SCMI freight operating from Chicago to Memphis, Tennessee, is passing one of Metra Highliner electric commuter trains at University Park, Illinois, on January 21, 1989.

After the passage of a thunderstorm, it’s still raining as a westbound BNSF unit oil train climbs the 2.2 percent grade up Mullan Pass between Austin and Weed, Montana, on the afternoon of July ... (more)

At Union Pacific’s Kansas City Locomotive Facility in Kansas City, Missouri, several UP machinists wrestle with a drawbar after installing new draft gear in the front of UPY EMD GP15-1 No. 697 o... (more)

Orange and gray Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP11 No. 8733 switches a sizable plastics manufacturing plant on the southeast side of Jacksonville, Illinois, in September 1984.

On the afternoon of June 23, 2022, a westbound (northbound) BNSF coal train follows water’s edge of the North Platte River through Wendover Canyon between Wendover and Cassa, Wyoming.