A pair of freshly painted former Rock Island GP18s leads a sister unit on a Chicago Rail Link drag passing through Pullman Junction. Tom Golden photo.

Union Pacific rotary snowplow No. 900082 clears deep snow out of a large cut west of First View, Colorado, Colorado, on October 28, 1997. The Cheyenne-based plow was called to clear the “Kansas Pa... (more)

Four Tunnel motors, with a loaded coal train coming off Gilluly, with dynamics brakes screaming. SD40-T's 5363, 5406, 5390, and 5345 are doing the honors. Tom Ellis photo.

Crossing the Missouri River leaving Townsend, Montana, is Montana Rail Link’s LM (Laurel to Missoula) freight led by EMD F45 No. 391 on a clear September 11, 1995.

Coal is no longer the 'king' it once was on CSX’s former Clinchfield mainline. Mines and tipples–both large and small alike have continued shudder across the region since the late 1980’s following... (more)

Big Boy over Kiowa Creek

A year ago a brisk Union Pacific 4014 chase from Limon to Denver wrapped up for me at the ancient Warren quadrangular truss east of Bennett, CO over th... (more)

1906 splits the GAF plant as it rolls up the hill for Boise Cascade.

A drab locomotive did nothing to brighten the scene on a cloudy winter morning at Jefferson, Junction, Pennsylvania, or JN Cabin. The train is on the Delaware & Hudson Penn Division, and the “Jeff... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Early Union Pacific locomotive consists on Colorado’s former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel line could be colorful as seen on April 2, 2001. Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 leads UP and Southern Pacific... (more)

After an evening of shooting a few of GLC's units posed for us, we set up one last quick set up. This time it included GLC's latest purchases, GLC 701, 702, 705 SD35's that came from MRL with the ... (more)

ES2G DC commuter train ib the Moscow Central Circuit under the heavy first snow

Recently unveiled Canadian National ET44AC heritage unit 3115 rolls into the Big Nickel and out of the morning fog at Estaire, ON.

Game over for prototype CC 7001 and her sisters

The Sunday morning Finger Lakes GS-2 is led by solo GP38-2 2002 as it makes its way across Cayuga Lake over a causeway and then a truss bridge that allows for boat traffic. Cayuga Lake is the long... (more)