Breezy Spring Morning | As a southbound grain train crawls up the west (timetable north) slope of the Rich Mountain grade in western Arkansas, a brisk wind carries clouds through the sky in... (more)

One Year Later | Just as day breaks on April 14, 2024 - the one-year anniversary of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger - a southbound CPKC train approaches the top of the moun... (more)

Union Pacific locomotives rest in the yard at Helper, Utah, on the morning of March 17, 2009. The trio of GE AC4400CW/AC4400CW-CTEs are a helper set used to assist UP trains over Soldier Summit.

Powered by five Canadian Pacific EMD SD40-2s is CP’s wayfreight that operates between Golden and Cranbrook, British Columbia, is running southbound just south of Wasa on July 15, 2011.

An eastbound BNSF grain train rumbles across Bridge 55 over Trout Creek along the Clark Fork and the former Montana Rail Link main line through Trout Creek, Montana, on a wintery February 12, 2024... (more)

Night gas rolling
Floating on a carpet that is Montana Rail Link’s Tenth Subdivision main line approaching Perma is the night gas local heading west on September 21, 2006. The rain fi... (more)

VIA Rail's F40PH no. 6401 is leading the last remaining Renaissance consist in service on VIA's Ottawa-Quebec corridor into Montreal on a sunny late-February afternoon.

Now a regular sight on the Ottawa to Quebec runs, VIA's Venture set with n. 2204 leading crosses over Lachine canal, approaching Montreal's Central Station, to then continue to Quebec.

VIA's Abitibi and Saguenay leave Montreal on a frigid January morning with an extra car each for added braking at these cold temperatures - gaving a look as last year when the infamous buffer cars... (more)

Fishers on Fisheating Creek greet the Sugar Express, today running roundtrip from Lake Placid to Clewiston & back. I'm sitting here remembering how this steam operation went from a hope and a d... (more)

With the Cemex crew aboard, the Unit Train has dropped the head end of their train for local #915 and are picking up hoppers the local brought in to add to Cemex's train. This doesn't happen ever... (more)

Time to get some brush cutters out....with big consists like this on Sundays, the view space will be needed as we climb into the summer.

With an approach signal ahead, a pair of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe's slow as they split the searchlight signals at the west end of the siding at Eddy, Montana. This is the eastbound return leg of ... (more)

The ME-1 crew throttles up their pair of Alco's as they pound the diamond in Corry, Pennsylvania and pass the Conrail era trilight signals as they head west towards Meadville. This is an at-grade ... (more)

After spending two consecutive weekends dropping welded rail between Calverton and Manorville, a crew is seen shoving the now empty train back to Wellwood Siding, awaiting a new crew to bring it b... (more)