An Ethanol extra ran today running through a heavy intense tropical downpour. Rain was falling at a rate of 2 inches per hour, not that uncommon in the rainy season.

What A Load of Garbage! Union Pacific's twice-weekly local, the LOF67, slides through the siding between Strathearn and Millhouse as it prepares to come to a stop...but not before passing t... (more)

180 car mty grain train passes through bucolic Summers County and over the Greenbrier River at Lowell. The current bridge was completed in 1949 as part of a multitude of projects headed by C&O ch... (more)

Redondo Over - Under. As Union Pacific 7625 leads the westbound rock train through Redondo Junction and toward the Alameda Corridor, Amtrak 785 cruises above on its decent toward CP Olympia... (more)

Just as the sun rises over the Laurel Highlands, and the morning fog burns off, X216 tackles Sand Patch Grade, ducking under the former railroad giant Western Maryland Salisbury Viaduct.

As the bottom fallout, haulage rights train NS 202 (CSX Z601-12) lean into the curve on the main 2 track as the train continues to make the descend down Raccoon Mountain for Chattanooga, TN. Mount... (more)

A 99.8 second exposure at "0419 in the AM" behind the Pennsylvania position lights mounted on Jamestown Road in Portage, PA. A couple weeks later, on June 10th, these signals were removed from ser... (more)

After pulling its cut of boxcars and woodchip hoppers ahead for headroom, GTW 4616 and train pause on the ancient ex-C&NW bridge over the Fox River to wait for the conductor to throw back the swit... (more)

QNS&L GE AC4400CW 420 southbound with a loaded iron ore train at Milepost 12 along the Moisie River

Four SD40-2’s are digging into the grade as they bring a westbound manifest out of Altoona at Slope. It is most likely that the lead two units are helpers.

Loaded vehicle train Q262 is eastbound on CSX's Short Line Sub and is seen soaring over the Cuyahoga River Valley on Marcy Trestle in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio with the increasingly famous KCS/BCOL d... (more)

This was to be a Skookum shot, but with her the eccentric problems, she didn't make it out this far. The Polson Lumber company #2 made for a nice substitute on a beautiful day along the Oregon Co... (more)

Emery is where the Iowa Traction is based with a yard and a few customers. Alot of operations happen more in Mason City around the AGP plant, so I was happy to get some rare mileage for me. The IA... (more)

13 month old BN was still pretty colorful as shown here with an eastbound "hotshot" leaving St. Paul at Dayton's Bluff on trackage shared with Milwaukee Road, Rock Island and Chicago & N... (more)

A northbound Kansas City Southern freight cruises up Union Pacific’s Cuero Subdivision between Dacosta and Guadalupe, Texas, on March 14, 2013, as seen in a pacing photograph from U.S. Highway 8... (more)