After being shopped for two weeks, to our surprise, we see IC 6251 shove a limestone set underneath I-35. After getting signals, we race up the line to watch the quartet of SD40s crawl uphill in s... (more)

With the demand for light ever increasing, limestone loads crawl into Munger with a quartet of SD40 products, the leader still sporting its Illinois Central paint. After being out of service for t... (more)

Seen high above Evaro Hill, at the crest, rests one of the more iconic trestles along the MRL… seen here supporting the evening Gas train with a healthy cut for Thompson Falls.

With a lengthy train for Missoula, MRLs morning Gas train skates along the Clark Fork river in some beautiful summer sunlight.

On a sunny morning high above the valley, MRLs famed Day Gas train rumbles over the Evaro high bridge with 22 cars for Missoula.

Roaring out of the Muskegon river valley, a GP & 2 SD40s drag 36 cars up the steep grade in some light showers. Music to my ears!

Sporting an almost jungle-like feel, Marquette Rail’s Sparta to Baldwin road train crawls out of White Cloud with some of MQTs finest SD40s up front.

Out along the former Pure Marquette on a sunny friday summer afternoon, as local train L305 roars out of Howell with a pair of CSX’s finest EMDs and 50 cars for Lansing.

Some 15 miles north of Dayton, OH, rests the quiet town of Tipp City along the historic, and popular to rail enthusiasts, CSX Toledo Subdivision. The line known for its elderly color position ligh... (more)

Seen high above downtown Lemont, one of the few remaining active ATSF painted GP60s rounds through town with a long cut of manifest cars for GM yard outside Chicago.

Seen from above the Clybourn Metra station on the northwest side of downtown Chicago, Metra’s CNW inspired locomotive rounds into the station stop with a UP-NW trainset in tow.

Painted to commemorate the state of Illinois, this Rock Island line outbound is powered by the one and only 402. Captured here at Tinley Park’s 80th ave station amidst a thin layer of Canadian w... (more)

Towards the latter half of the BNSFs line Metra rush, one of the few blue F40s that BNSF utilizes hauls through Highlands with its first station stop being Downers Grove. Word on the street, is th... (more)

Metra rush is underway for the Union Pacific West line, as Metra’s Chicago & Northwestern commemorative locomotive heads the first rush outbound of the evening. Seen here ducking under the forme... (more)

About an hour or so after sunrise, stacks & racks from Tacoma, WA, fly through Mazon awaking the town. Todays train features a handful of GE products, the lead motor being in the H1 scheme.