James has managed to glom a ride in the left seat of 1800 and leans out to give me a big wave as they pass the Mile 144 marker on the CN Newmarket Sub, just south of Huntsville. Sadly, we will no ... (more)

Light power heads north towards Holbrook on the first of 2 runs to pick up the last Blue Looper coal train on 8/16/12. The first run would be 21 mixed freight, 19 aluminum coal hoppers, and 11 blu... (more)

Before the F40PHs came to the Ski Train, UP provided the power, and for several years, that was two (of three) of the Rio Grande GP60s. A summer version of the Ski Train, operated to Winter Park f... (more)

A touch of morning fog lingers on the Sheyenne River, as a westbound BNSF coal empty rolls across the massive 3,800 plus-foot long viaduct at Valley City, North Dakota. This is the Jamestown Subdi... (more)

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The Fraternal Order of Wood Lobbers. That's the unofficial moniker that one crewman used to describe the team that runs Eureka & Palisade #4. Here, the F.O.W.L. can be seen doing their thi... (more)

An eastbound BNSF stack train crosses Java Bridge over the Middle Fork of the Flathead River at West Java, Montana, on the morning of June 4, 2002.

Southern Indiana Railroad (SIND) S-2m No. 103 travels through a curve on the return trip to Sellersburg, Indiana, on August 10, 2012. These sharp curves nicely illustrate the interurban heritage o... (more)

Thanks for the memories!. With the conclusion of the 2012 Railfest Event in Durango today, we may well have seen the final revenue run of the iconic Eureka & Palisade #4; the last wood-burn... (more)

The sun has just set on a beautiful summer evening as an eastbound BNSF grain train rolls alongside the corn fields east of Tower City, North Dakota. This is BNSF's Jamestown Subdivision west of F... (more)

HG 3/4 No. 1 pauses at Muttbach-Belvédère to attach a diesel before passing through the Furka tunnel

MILW's SD7 522 has eight empty 40-ft. box cars in tow at Suffolk, Mont. en route to the elevator at the end of the branch at Winifred. The 90-mile round trip at 10 mph will require most of the c... (more)

Eleven miles from Lewistown, Mont., MILW's local to Winifred actually traversed the siding (elevator track) because the "main line" was out of service. Speed limit was 10 mph.

A Burlington Northern Santa Fe empty coal train, still looking a lot like the Burlington Northern, curves along the North Platte River through scenic Wendover Canyon, Wyoming, on July 6, 1996. The... (more)

Union Pacific's MINPV (Milpitas, CA - North Platte, NE) auto train rolls east along the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake at Lake Point, Utah.