A group of ex-Mopac GP50s have found a new life after some work at MPI. Now they are lower emission MPI MP20GPs, and several of them work the southeast area of Houston's yards and industries.

UP 8548 "reflects" on the New Year ahead of it.

UP 8141 has sported a black/brown nose since at least the summer of 2003. Not sure why this doesn't get repainted.

CEFX GP20Ds sit quietly in Motivepower's Houston facility.

The Texas Eagle charges into the sunset, starting its journey 90 minutes late, and already even later by the time it roars through Lemont toward the sunset.

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Heading out of the snow toward the sheds of Chicago Union Station.

Let's hope these mothball lines are much shorter (or gone) at the end of 2010 than they are at the beginning.

Inbound empties on the IHB. They will continue onto the BNSF and head west on the Transcon later in the day.

IHB 1521 and Power Booster 3 wait for some work to do.

A visitor to a yard that is neither in Indiana, nor Ohio.

Not doing much work today.

Two DPUs at the end of a very long double-stack train (perhaps two combined trains) hold up momentum on the back side of this train inbound toward Chicago as the tracks flip over to the nor... (more)

Built in 1910, over 100 years ago, Gary Union Station was designed by architect M. A. Lang as a two-level station between the Baltimore and Ohio (south, off screen to right) and the South S... (more)

Off the Norfolk Southern from Chicago, and on to high-speed Amtrak rails, the midday eastbound Wolverine, with a healthy 8-car consist, picks up speed as it heads toward Pontiac (Detroit), ... (more)