After always following in consist, i was finally able to catch the new Tier IV demonstrator upfront in Albina Yard.

Looking great in low morning light, UP 2674 east works up Beaumont Hill near El Casco.

Brand new CN ET44AC 3107 sits quietly in the yard at Swan Landing after bringing a loaded sand train in earlier in the morning. This was one of the first "3100s" to be built, and the fir... (more)

With a new Tier 4 leader, CN 305 pieces it's train together at Gordon Yard before heading westbound out of town. CN 3097 was working mid-train on this 11,800 footer.

Can you smell the paint? Brand new and shiny SD70ACu NS 7309 is in charge of NS W9Q, an extra 39Q, as it glides over Burd's Crossing.

A pair of General Electric Erie, PA-built ES44AC units for Ferromex - FXE 4816 and 4815 - await pickup by Norfolk Southern on the East Erie Commercial interchange trackage near the GE Transportati... (more)

One of the major railcar leasers in North America is GATX (General American Transportation Corporation). A set of six brand new DOT111A100W7 GATX tank cars with head shields, roll south on Brenco... (more)

"Bran-New" Southern Pacific 210 marches up Tennessee Pass below Pando. This section of grade between Red Cliff and Pando has tight 12 degree curves making it, like the rest of Tennessee Pass, a t... (more)

Three SD70ACS export locomotives bound for Saudi Arabia make their way through central Ohio.

The new leader of the pack. One of Metrolink's new F125 "Spirit" Tier 4 locomotives, the third built, though the first to be delivered, sits on display at Los Angeles Union Statio... (more)

Metrolink's first Tier IV diesel, F125 #905 is the lead unit on a display train being set up for an event the following day at Los Angeles Union Station.

The New Face of Metrolink

If you cross your eyes and let them go out of focus, it kind of, sort of, looks like an F-unit. Maybe. OK, not really. But, still, it is an F-unit. T... (more)

A brand new EMD SD70AH motor pulls Union Pacific's ZDVSC 08 train into the Salt Lake City Intermodal Terminal on July 8, 2016. The 9034 is from an order for 65 Tier IV 'credit' units built in Mexi... (more)

While Amtrak No. 5, The California Zephyr, does its station stop, IDTX Siemens Charger SC-44 No. 4601 is one of two demo units seen parked on one of two of Amtrak's tracks at Union Station in Denv... (more)

A week into there testing of the EMD Tier 4 compliance SD70ACe, a short on time LCL crew brings the Twin Demos in to Latonia it has took this train 12 hours to make its 105 mile journey up the LCL... (more)