Visiting a freight car scrapper brings to mind the mythical elephants’ graveyard, as one is surrounded by the massive carcasses of rail cars whose useful lives have ended. Morbidly slicing them... (more)

Passing through Dolton Junction on CSXT trackage, Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5322 (ex-CR 8147, née-PC 8147), running long-hood forward, it pulling a short hot metal train eastward. This train consis... (more)

The 2000 hp PRI/EMD GP20C-ECO locomotives feature a lot of new components: frame, fuel tank, long hood, snoot nose, cab, 8-710G3A prime mover and AC alternator/rectifier – with Canadian Pacific... (more)

As Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief (Los Angeles to Chicago), pulls out of the station, outbound Metra train 1231 pulls in. METX F40PHM-2 206 is powering the Metra commuter tr... (more)

A Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad freight train, CSS AF4, behind CSS GP38-2 2006, NICD GP38-2 1000 (ex-RMPX GP40 6405, ex-GTW 6405, née-DTI 405) and CSS GP38-2 2005, hustles its way to ... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just 37½-miles into its 2,265-mile journey from Chicago IL to Los Angeles CA, and it is already 23 minutes late – an inauspicious start!... (more)

Indiana Boxcar Corporation SDM 818 and Chesapeake & Indiana GP38-2 5152 are seen near the Co-Alliance Grain elevator. Built in April 1959 as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range SD9 172, back when 2-8-8-4... (more)

Backing their train down the Iowa Interstate’s line and across the Calumet Sag Channel and through one of the five through truss bridges (four of which are still in service) that span the channe... (more)

Sitting in Canadian National Railways' Kirk Yard, Elgin Joliet & Eastern SD38-2 668, one of at least five EJ&E SD38-2s to get repainted in CN paint (at this date). This was the last SD38-2 built ... (more)

Sometimes things can get a little confusing in Chicago, at least to those of us who don’t visit as often as we’d like. BNSF Dash 9-44CW 699, ES44C4 6619, SD70ACe 8408 and ET44C4 3887 are head... (more)

TPLX GP40-2 3030 sits under a spectacular midwestern sky as it shows off its recently applied "Support Our Troops" paint job. This engine was originally built by EMD in May 1978 as Conrail 3329, ... (more)

Indiana Harbor Belt GP38-2 3800 shows off its new Veterans paint scheme as it takes a spin on the turntable at the roundhouse at Gibson Yard. This engine was built as Penn Central 8066, later bec... (more)

Spending the night in Anaheim are the two engines that brought Union Pacific’s Hauler into town from West Colton Yard. UP ET44AC 2709 and SD70Ace-T4 3028 were both built in 2016. (Anaheim, Cal... (more)

BNSF Railway train Z-LACNYC7-05 has just begun its trip from Los Angeles to New York behind ES44C4 7042 and Dash 944CWs 677 and 5355, with an assist from mid-train Distributed Power Units ES44DC 7... (more)

BNSF ES44C4 8347, Dash 9-44CW 5109, ES44DC 7417 and ES44DC 7899 are supplying a combined 17,600 horsepower to get Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-LACNYC7-31 across the road as it heads from Lo... (more)