Three SD70MAC variants in three paints schemes lead a loaded coal train east down the BNSF Orin Sub in remote northeastern Wyoming. The lead unit was rebuilt as an upgraded version in 2015 and is ... (more)

A long hood forward SD40 crosses Brays Bayou on it's way to work customers along the Strang Sub.

Searchlights & SD70Ms, almost a scene out of 2004.

A westbound manifest descends down grade out of Valentine as it rounds the curve at Hackberry Rd with a monsoon storm in the background. This train would lead the fleet of westbound trains that go... (more)

CSX B633 going down track 1 through Monroe Yard with a Canadian Pacific leader

Yard engines at the yard office.

M583 rolls into Fayetteville with a Rocky Mount bound manifest.

M408 passes through downtown Dunn on CSX's A Line main. The ACL's main splits through the middle of many of the communities it passes in the Carolinas.

If Rock Island had adopted an all-yellow paint scheme in anticipation of the doomed UP merger this might have been the result; an all yellow E8 661 former UP 941 glow in early morning light a... (more)

Three generations of different locomotives (M62UMM, 2TE116 and, 2TE25KM) on display in the Sukhbaatar yard. Join & Inquire about railfanning tours in Mongolia: monrailpic@gmail.com

A Russian export-transit oil train hauled by 2TE25KM-0734 passes through Mongolia en route to China. Russian crude oil exports via Mongolia have steadily increased over the past two years, driven ... (more)

CN 5489 heads East through Rockford with a single car for Genoa.

Todays version of CN's Freeport based local heads East with just a single car in tow. The train is just about to cross beneath Kelley Road, just West of Seward.

Buttercup in the morning sun.

New Cape Central Railway (NCCR) is a new player on the South African railway preservation scene - trains started running between Robertson and Nuy in September 2023. The service is a steam (daily... (more)