Stopped by an emergency brake application, a westbound manifest on the Shasta Route cools its heels in the Butte Valley.
A thunderstorm has just cleared and early evening light bathes Proctor yard as a loaded limestone train for Minntac departs north. There are still plenty of older EMD units assigned to Proctor.
Springtime thunderstorms gather over Tennessee Pass as a westbound Rio Grande freight descends the steep three-percent grade through the town of Red Cliff, Colorado, on the afternoon of May 24, 19... (more)
A trio of EMD SD40's leads iron ore train U717 as it heads towards Duluth, about to cross Sax Road in Sax, Minnesota.
An old "Southern Railway Maintenance Limit" sign still stands here next to one of the spur tracks at Irondale, AL that goes to a palnt known as Graces. Norfolk Southern Job AB10 is seen ... (more)
UP 1853 (SD40-2) pulls a string of freight for sorting in the large UP yard in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Shortly after a crew change at Dunsmuir, a westbound SP manifest crosses Castle Creek in the shadow of the Castle Crags.
A single EMD locomotive brings Herzog empties underneath one of several old wooden bridges that allow traffic to pass over the CSX Lineville Subdivision.
FEC 402 tasked with keeping weeds under control works through Colfax
Rear DPUs on a westbound empty coal train.
Just after sunrise, a pair of remote-control SD40-2s switches the east end of UP's Davidson Yard.
On a typical smoggy summer LA basin day, an eastbound UP piggybacker was crossing the concrete arch bridge over the Santa Ana River in Riverside, CA
Late in the day, a faded SD70MAC leads a BNSF coal load through the reverse curves at m.p. 4 of the Orin Line.
Chattanooga knows what's up and they're not afraid to show it.
She may look like a dirty pirate hooker now, but once upon a time every boy in town was chasing after her.
