CP 5565 and a number of other SD40-2 occupy the Revelstoke, BC locomotive facilities at CP Rail's yard in that city. It may be August, but there was plenty of moisture earlier this day.

CP train 2, The Canadian, gives dome passengers an incredible view as it nears the top of Kicking Horse Pass and approaches the Alberta border. Next stop, Lake Louise.

CN 5444 rolls its local east at Hwy. F west of Chippewa Falls after completing its day's work west of Chippewa. The train is returning to Irvine yard with grain loads, an empty lumber car and a st... (more)

UP 7280 has its westbound train, mostly sand loads, up to about 50 mph as it rolls under US 12's bridge and around a slight curve at Boundary Rd, just east of Woodville, WI. This is the location t... (more)

UP 7280 rolls its train through fills and cuts on the old C&NW route of the 400 as it is about to pass under highway 128 west of Wilson, WI. The wide cut gives away the fact that this was a double... (more)

UP 7280 has topped Knapp hill and picks up a bit of speed as it approaches the 310th St. crossing at Wilson, WI on its run from Altoona to the Twin Cities.

UP 7280 heads a westbound train up Knapp hill just west of Knapp, WI. The train is down to about 20 mph with heavy sand loads supported by 3 GEs on the point and 2 more on the back as DPUs. Part o... (more)

UP 8035 leads a freight train on mostly empty sand hoppers east near Elk Mound, WI on its run from the Twin Cities to Altoona, WI. Snow is disappearing exposing the thick layer of "pink lady&... (more)

CN 5444, a rebuilt SD60, is in charge of the local turn out of Chippewa Falls, WI. The weekday train services industries west of Chippewa Falls with a morning turn that may travel as far west as t... (more)

BNSF 8944 heads up a long string of SD70MACs idled by a combination of reduced coal demand and acquisition of newer power by BNSF. I noticed a similar string, mixed with GE power stored at Northto... (more)

A quartet of former Reserve Mining SD9 locomotives sit in storage on the Escanaba & Lake Superior at Escanaba, MI in the company of a couple of baldwin roadswitchers. It does not appear they will ... (more)

PTLX 236, a former BNSF (ATSF) SD75M makes a light engine move out of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming yard at Eagle Mills, MI. The crew is CN and they have dropped cars for LS&I and will pick up min... (more)

CEFX 1005 leads a Lake Superior & Ishpeming mine run through a cut and sharp curve at Eagle Mills Jct., just west of Eagle Mills, MI. The train will do work at Tilden Mine and later tie up back at... (more)

BNSF 7403 leads an eastbound train past a westbound oil train at Granite, ID just north of Athol on the "funnel". This line is part of the former Northern Pacific's mainline between Sand... (more)

SOO caboose no. 87 brings up the rear of an eastbound freight headed for Milwaukee as it passes through Pewaukee, WI just of the town. Soo Line was a late adopter to FREDs, which allowed an extend... (more)