Out and about testing the new toy this evening. I'm quite pleased with its results so far! A northbound UP mixed freight, symbol being MASPR, is seen splitting the City of Tuscola in two, behin... (more)

CN 2281, leader of that day's 305, is lit up by both the star lights and moslty by the red light at the west end of Villeroy. The usual meet with the 306 will take place a few moments later.

The switchman riding on Iowa Traction Railway Company 50-Ton Steeplecab 50 hops off the moving train in the classic style, in use for over one-hundred years before "3-Point Safety Contact&quo... (more)

Chicago Metra train 1235 has just departed downtown Chicago’s Union Station, passing the Metra yard to its right, and the Amtrak yard to its left, just after passing under the Roosevelt Road bri... (more)

Weirton, West Virginia, is home to ArcelorMittal's National Steel Corporation/Weirton Steel Division. Weirton Steel (WSX) SW1500 306 is the former Whitestone Supply (WSTX) 306, former Pittsburgh ... (more)

Passing the former site of Orr Mill, the Belton Job eases into downtown Anderson on a gloomy Septermber day.

With U18Bs 9503 and 9508 for power, the Anderson job comes out on the main from the Pickens Railroad shop facility in Gluck as the Belton job works its way north to start building its train.

CSX L303-20 Eastbound over the Grand River in Grand Ledge Michigan with CSX 81 and 315 leading a long train w/ 156 cars and a beautiful sky

CP 7022, CPKC's Navy tribute unit, rolls through Des Plaines, IL leading CPKC grain train 346 (which has some regular manifest tacked on the front today).

NS 139 crossing the Miami River in Dayton

OMLX 3809, one of the Illinois Railway's GP38-2s, trundles along at a leisurely 10 mph through Ottawa, IL with a string of sand cars on job 203, passing a former Burlington Northern caboose which ... (more)

Iowa Interstate's nightly Chicago-bound freight, CBBI, rushes through with ES44ACs 503 and 514 in charge.

Westbound empties.

Eastbound Z train.

The once common rural scenes along the former Durham & Southern are dwindling fast, as evidenced by the development on the right. A trio of 2nd generation EMDs lead L615 by one of a couple remaini... (more)