MRL SD40 no. 251 and mate work a freight east having just left Big Timber, MT. The train is occupying Northern Pacific's former mainline along the Yellowstone River with the Crazy Mountains provid... (more)

All green—almost
A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a GE B30-7A booster power westbound unit grain train G05 just east of Summit on Montana’s Marias Pass. An almost al... (more)

On this date in history there was a snowstorm that pretty much shut down the Pittsburgh, PA area on March 13, 1993. Conrail power shares the tracks around the turntable with PC&Y 5 at Conway, PA a... (more)

An F59PHI accelerates from its station stop at Western Avenue as it passes the Milwaukee Road searchlights at Tower A2.

If there is a certainty in chasing Jordan Spreaders is they will need maintaining often. They are mostly old and take a beating. Here DMVW 124 is getting worked on so we moved on to find a Russ... (more)

Nightfall over Minturn
Darkness is settling over the town of Minturn, that sits at the foot of Tennessee Pass on Rio Grande’s Royal Gorge Route main line. Three EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Moto... (more)

BNSF 284 leads a military train west through Kingman Canyon.

In the crisp Saturday afternoon, the Amtrak "Downeaster" train 694 led by the Amtrak NPCU Heritage unit #406 crosses a bridge.

Difficult to tell through the heat distortion of 73's exhaust, however, two F59PHi locomotives take outbound trains though the north side of Chicago.

Former Amtrak Cascades 470 pushes an inbound train to Chicago on a rare sunny day of which have been few and far between this winter.

An eastbound rebuilt Metroliner set on Keystone Service duty meets with a steam-powered NRHS Extra at Lancaster. A Don Jilson original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

Two factory new C40-8Ws lead two more Dash 8s on an eastbound CR SEBO as it meets TV-9 with a factory new SD60M leader on a cold March morning on the Boston Line at CP-148. One of the forgotten g... (more)

Avoiding the traffic on Interstate 95 in South Florida, passengers on a northbound Tri-Rail train pass through Boynton Beach with cab car TCRX 505 leading on the former CSX Miami Subdivision (ex-S... (more)

TRCX 818 trails on a northbound Florida Tri-Rail commuter train passing through Boynton Beach on the former CSX Miami Subdivision (ex-Seaboard-All Florida Railway). Vehicle traffic can be seen to ... (more)

A temperature inversion at sunrise has trapped steam rising off freshly baked taconite pellets at CN's former DM&IR yard at Proctor, Minnesota. A trio of Missabe tunnel motors will head north for ... (more)