West of Rollinsville, Colo., six SD motors of D&RGW usher Train 707, empty coal hoppers, back to mines on Oct. 10, 1986.

With six new EMD SD50’s charging up the mountain with a string of coal empties, D&RGW’s 5511 West has passed Rollinsville, Colo. and has about 7 miles before reaching Moffat Tunnel and diving ... (more)

Having passed through North America’s 4th longest tunnel (6.2 miles), apparently the brakeman was going back to check an engine problem. Inside Moffat Tunnel D&RGW 5515 East crested the highest... (more)

The cleanest standard cab of the day was this SD50 in Boxcar Logo leading a southbound loaded rail train across the Clinch River.

I managed to get ahead of the loaded grain train at Clinch River due to southbound movements, and this is what the opportunity yielded.

A great day for standard cabs on CSX! To start the parade was a CSX northbound grain train with a nice SD50 leader flies north at South Amherst.

"Add on Power"

CSX 8600 as a last minute add on in Selkirk leads two foreign visitors on a loaded ethanol train. Due to a derailment the night before, this train would be the thi... (more)

An EMD SD50 leads a Nashville bound manifest train across the Etowah River on its trip North.

A Conrail freight makes it's way through the curve in Willoughby, Ohio

I believe this station was once served by the only true transcontinental passenger train ever in the US, the now-truncated Amtrak "Sunset". Here a westbound freight is heading to Mobile... (more)

Leading a southbound grain train holding the main deep in the Toe River valley and way out in the country, where a can of beany wienies and moon pie washed down with an ROC cola constitutes a fine... (more)

Eastbound CNW run through grain train Blue Island

Westbound Illinois Railway "plow extra" crosses the frozen Fox River on the west side of Sheridan with a pair of ex-CNW SD50s sandwiching an ex-SP SD45T-2.

HBR 5008, ex-CNW 7018, blasts through the Illinois Railway snow covered main line and into the small town of Sheridan, IL. The Illinois Railway has four Hudson Bay SD50s on the property, all origi... (more)