Luck o' the Irish A rebuilt SD60-3 and a Soo GP38-2 lead the Ipsco Steel job out of Nahant on St. Patrick's Day.

UP 2224 leads a trio of UP 60's over the ALS bridge in East St. Louis. To see a UP SD60 is already rare enough but a trio is pretty wild!

Under a stormy Montana sky, a BNSF freight train crosses the Clark Fork bridge at Bonner on October 4, 2005, heading eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Third Subdivision between Missoula and Helen... (more)

NYS&W SU-99 has just crossed the last of many road crossings in the City of Paterson at 4th Avenue. Just beyond the 4th Ave crossing is Costal Distribution, a garbage customer of the railroad com... (more)

"SU99 at Port Jervis" New York Susquehanna and Western road train SU99 passes the former Erie station in Port Jervis, NY. The Friday evening commuter train traffic has eased, givi... (more)

The NYS&W SU-100 passes Roe's Orchard heading south/west on the former L&HR mainline, which still sees freight traffic from the NYS&W and the Middletown and New Jersey.

A normally nocturnal NYS&W SU-100 was pushed back 12 hours due to signal cutovers on NJ Transit, and highballs east past Middletown, NY, passing the Red Onion Siding east of the passenger station.

With brand new Norfolk Southern Rapid Discharge hoppers in two. An eastbound coal drag is on a final leg of its journey with 3 veteran Norfolk Southern locomotives all of which are now removed fro... (more)

Westbound SU99 waits for the road crew at the MC Yard in Bogota, N.J. The former Federal Paper Board's huge smoke stack looms in the distance.

2019's winter was a tough one for all the railroads in the Midwest. A major storm hit on Saturday February 23rd. The storm dump rain, ice, and snow, followed by blizzard like winds. B41 left out o... (more)

2019's winter in Iowa was a pretty tough one for the railroads, especially in March. Sunday night's Canadian Pacific's B-41 local left Mason City around 2am with a wedge plow and 69 cars. Multiple... (more)

One of the bigger customer on the line west of Mason City is this AGP plant outside of Emmetsburg. This plant has been always a big producer of soybean meal and this railroad (IMRL/ICE/DME/CP) has... (more)

The sound of 2 GP38's barking could be heard for a few minutes before the train showed up. Here the Dubuque local 565 climbs out of the Mississippi River Valley towards Peosta. The 10 mile hike up... (more)

The L565 local rolls out of Dubuque for their daily trek to Manchester and back. This job works all the local industries between Peosta and Manchester, and will make connection most days with a L5... (more)