Toronto-Winnipeg train M313 eases up at Plessis Road nearing the end of its run at Symington Yard a mile or so ahead.
PURCELL OK (July) 1977 — Santa Fe U23B 6314 leads two leased C&NW GP30s on a mixed freight. My working hours in the newsroom of the Norman Transcript meant I usually got off around 2 p.m. If the... (more)
Its minus 34 degrees at daybreak and BLE 900 pops out of the shadows at N. Fairlane with U711 in tow for Proctor.
BNSF 3280 awaits to bring the Q LACNSA out of Wellington after receiving a fresh crew for the run up the Emporia Subdivision to Kansas City
A little after sunrise, three four axle Geeps hustle across the frozen prairie landscape of southwestern Minnesota with the northbound Marshall local.
Having arrived in Cobden on the daily westbound train to the RCPE interchange at Tracy, MN, this pair of GE's has swapped places with a quartet of RCPE SD40-2s and now has control of the eastbound... (more)
The daily eastbound train out of Tracy is slowing to a stop in the tiny town of Cobden, MN on a nice July morning back in 2016. At the time RCPE power was fairly common on these trains east of Tra... (more)
A westbound BNSF freight train enters South Dakota as it climbs away from the Minnesota River valley on a nice autumn evening. In the distance is Ortonville, MN. Keen eyes will notice the extra di... (more)
A clean SD70M-2 leads Winnipeg, MB-Mirror, AB train X315 west on the Rivers Sub.
TPW westbound windmill train, passing west of Lake Cicott, IN, is headed to the Wolcott, IN yard during the evening of 04/25/12. At this point in time the NS was interchanging the windmill nacelle... (more)
Hotshot Toronto-Vancouver train Z111 speeds west at Canwheat chasing down the even hotter Z115 about 10 minutes ahead of him.
Toronto-Calgary train Z115 is near track speed of 60mph, leaving G3's Bloom, MB grain elevator in its dust. Some random trees in the middle of nowhere make for a nice scene.
A high hood GP9 leads an Otter Tail Valley Railroad train of empty tank cars across the frozen Minnesota landscape just south of Barnesville.
Two older GE locomotives, including a Dash 9 and a rebuilt Dash 9 (AC44CM number 615) lead A westbound grain train at Old Monroe, Missouri.
A modest H-MEMGAL crosses the frozen Peruque Creek near O'Fallon, Missouri.