M60225 accelerates away from Manchester with the Seaboard heritage unit leading, while the Family Lines unit heads in to town for a crew swap on I12626.

Union Pacific purchased eight EMD SD40X demonstrators. Six had flared radiators while two had flush to the body style radiators. They were built on SD35 frames. They look like SD45s but much short... (more)

At he start of its day long trip from Denver to Craig, Colorado is the 2 car westbound YAMPA VALLEY MAIL, train No.9 on November 5,1961. On the point is PA 6001, sporting the single stripe PRO... (more)

The way it used to be, SD40-2's with Canadian grain hoppers. In majestic Field, Alberta. (Tom Ellis photo)

Ground shot I took at Boyce (in addition to the drone shot) in the second significant snow storm of the season. 27A blasts south at trackspeed and is unphased by the weather with a relatively rece... (more)

A clean looking elegant E7 gets serviced at a locomotive facility.

With a nice sunrise in the background, the second locomotive of WW102, an aging GP10 makes a tremendous cloud of smoke after idling for the entire weekend and finally doing some work. Almost look... (more)

The Green Diamond makes a station stop. In the full size scan there appears to be a GP9 coupled to what looks like a baggage car on the rear.

Excuse Me! It's rare anymore for NS 191 to run during daylight hours, but the weather challenges from last week appear to have caused a number of trains through Columbia to be rescheduled.... (more)

UP 5855 (AC4400CW-CTE) shoves a loaded coal train past a BNSF oil can train waiting on a siding at a snowy Rollinsville, Colorado.

Morning Parade of Passenger Trains The Moffat Sub now carries 2 passenger trains a day each way on most days. A miracle in our time but like old times standing in the golden waves of g... (more)

Nearly A Century of Progress BNSF carries the flag on this moment some 98 years into the tenure of Moffat’s Dream.

Pendolino train to Athens

BNSF R-CAL9011-25 with three light GP60Ms performs crossing validation testing along the Metrolink Pasadena Subdivision, which was recently rebuilt by the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority... (more)