CN 2027 with taconite pellets from the Minorca mine is crossing over the former Duluth Missabe and Northern (DM&N) then it was the DMIR and now it's the CN bridge along the CN Iron Range Sub for T... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific manifest freight grinds uphill climbing Tennessee Pass and crosses the Eagle River approaching Pando, Colorado, on August 2, 1996. Not only does the train have to fig... (more)

CSX A700 goes about yarding it's train at CP Junta in Cartersville, Georgia as MofW crews replace rail on the K&A side of the split. (Slide Scan)

Vermont Rail System's GMRC GP9R 804 and VTR GP40-2 307 are dragging empty gondolas into the 5% climb at Barre, Vermont, to the Northeast Materials Group loadout at Websterville. From this point t... (more)

The Rotary train passes the photo charter participants.

Rain clouds are rolling out at sunset as the crew sends their power to the roundhouse. NCTM's FP7, Southern 6133, goes for a spin on the turntable in the day's last light, aiming for the glow from... (more)

Close Call!

With the headlights and ditch lights on at first glance this looks pretty scary. But after a second you realize the train is not on the main and the woman isn't run... (more)

Having just shoved their second cut of empties through the loadout at Creech, C633 waits for shift change at the mine before loading the cars. The clouds are catching light from the sunset happeni... (more)

The Last Time. The last crew to make up the popular Reno Fun Train takes a moment on a fittingly, gloomy morning in Sparks, Nevada to pose for a group photo in front of the train's l... (more)

A former Texas Star Clipper (nee-CNW) F7A, acquired back in 2012 by NS originally to be rebuilt as a new unit for the OCS, now sits quiet and decrepit on the end of a pipe plant siding a few miles... (more)

After chasing the B63 local to Hennepin and back to Streator, he got held up for a line of very strong thunderstorms. After the storms passed, the dispatcher let B63 proceed through town, however... (more)

A 27 unit BNSF power move from Alliance is rolling just east of Sterling, NE on the St. Joseph Sub. The train is DP'ed 2x1 moving 24 Dash9's which are to be returned to service at Topeka Shop. Tha... (more)

La Veta Pass meaning Mineral Vein Pass lies at 9242 feet at the the top of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. This eastbound train is climbing the 2.5% grade approaching the famous "loop&... (more)

Filling the sweeping curve on the approach to the 3,700-foot summit of Cajon Pass, BNSF's Southern California Christmas Train heads east for Barstow on its first crossing of the famous pass in dec... (more)

How times have changed on the C&O... Distributed power is now a common practice on mainline manifests, as freshly rebuilt GE AC44CM No. 7003 is positioned mid-consist for Rocky Mount, NC to... (more)