Q 116 with an odd ball leader crosses Main Street in Battle Creek as it heads for the Yard. Q 116 is normally a through train in BC but today it has a substantial pickup for Flat Rock.

Near Loretto, CP 242 heads east through the curve by Lake Sarah, nearing the siding track where a westbound would meet them in.

One of the few remaining KCS motors in grey paint leads a trainload of runthrough Mexican intermodal into NS' Inman Yard in Atlanta.

A Southbound manifest (Selkirk, NY to Oak Island, NJ) passes Mine Dock Park as a photographer takes a picture of a couple in front of the engines.

Runthrough UP ILBNS takes the siding at Villa Rica, passing train 11A with the Virginian Heritage leading.

Q116 pulls a block of Racks off the train for a double before is heads for Moterm and Flat Rock Yard.

KCSM 4571 shoves on eastbound loads.

Eastbound coal train works across the BNSF Ottumwa Sub in southern Iowa. This is a mainly coal route between Lincoln, NE, and Galesburg, IL. Many wooden overpasses litter the line thru Iowa. The t... (more)

Westbound Port Newark, NJ, to Bedford Park in Chicago, IL, priority intermodal train rolls thru Fostoria at sunset. The train is about to cross the NS in the triangle city in northern Ohio.

The Savanna, IL, to Mason City, IA, local is quite busy on the Marquette Sub tonight. At Dubuque, they did the interchange work with the CN before picking up over 70 cars setout by 475 the night b... (more)

Looking down the jointed siding, autos are approaching on the mainline behind an original CSX veteran AC4400CW. The "X" is missing from what looks like a replacement door on the nose.

Over recent years, things have surly changed at Coal Run Yard. The former Appalachian Fuels loadout no longer stands but trains are still rolling in and out of the hollows of Bevins Branch at the ... (more)

UP 6501 & 8161 with eastbound stacks.

Canadian Pacific moves empty covered hoppers south at Oakwood Interlocking in Caledonia, WI on an unseasonably warm winter morning.

UP 6851 & 7912 power a westbound mixed freight on main one.