Coal and non-coal SD40-2s bring a coal train across the former Frisco on the MP line to Coffeyville. We are years into the Power River era, but this mix-and-match power and train look like a non-... (more)

A coal service SD40-2 (SD40-2c to MP) teams with two more SD40s to take a grain extra off the Salina branch. Regular trains on the branch typically rated just a pair of GP38s.

The six-days-a-week Pine Belt Southern turn from LaFayette slides down CSX toward the downtown NS crossing.

A former Norfolk Southern GP18 and two more geeps lead a MOW ballast train along one of the oldest railroad lines in the USA. Judging from all those markers showing where defects were detected, b... (more)

A fresh SD40-2 leads two U30Cs and a C&NW GP50 with an eastbound.

The transition from CP and CN to VIA resulted in more than a few rainbow trains, like this eastbound racing along the plain south of the St Laurence River.

CP RDC-1 9056 awaits departure from Windsor Station with the CN office building looming behind it. I think 9056 wound up in Dallas in the late 1990s, but I do not know if it is still in operation... (more)

Local power is tied down in the siding as a Birmingham-bound intermodal train behind former Conrail SDs passes.

A northbound empty gain train passes the Dardanelle and Russellville interchange.

An L&N GP30 in Family Line attire works customers along the main near Pascagoula.

The daily Chicago-to-KC freight rolls through what's left of the ex-IC yard just after meeting KC-2 (KC to Chicago). In a few minutes, at a spot called Brickyard, the train will curve onto a form... (more)

A coal train destined for Plant Harlee Branch near Milledgeville waits for a crew as the coach at the rear of the mixed train from Macon disappears in the distance.

A former Rock Island GP38-2 leads a former Conrail GP38-2 on the former Missouri Pacific.

I believe UP 928 was leased by Amtrak, not purchased. At this point, the 23-year-old beauty is looking a little tattered.

In the late 1970s, Family Lines power was starting to float all over the system, but very few non-SCL units made it to the former ACL main through Charleston, at least in my experience. On this d... (more)