AMTK 2013 blasts past the ex-PRR tower as it brings up the rear of a northbound Acela. In the distance, an NJT local can be seen approaching.

Heat radiates all around the engine as NJT 4418 shoves a train out of the station and northbound to New York.

On a surprisingly warm and clear January day on the West Slope, NS 9187, 8815, and 9450 split the ex-PRR signals at the Portage detector.

RDG 5204, still in its Green Bay & Western colors with Reading markings, poses at Temple station. Thanks to my brother for the lighting.

Foreign visitor MRL SD45-2 309 leads 2 KCS tunnel motors, SD40-2 6100 and SD45-3 4505, and a string of Herzog cars, as they wait for clearance to head south into the Ozarks.

KCS 615 and 4 other SD40s, including two MRL units, uncouple from a local to do some switching in Stillwell. Note the Sinclair gas station, an increasingly rare sight in the US.

KCS 752 hauls a southbound manifest out from under the shadow of the Ozark Mountains.

KCS 752 and 624 fly past a farm, deep in the heart of the Ozarks in rural eastern Oklahoma.

281 miles south of Kansas City, BNSF 9898 leads 2 KCS AC4400CWs southbound on KCS trackage.

KCS SD40-3 657, KCS SD60 758, and KCS SD40-3 673 sit on the point of a cut of Herzog ballast cars at the south end of Heavener yard.

KCS 4719 takes a break from switching Ashdown, viewed from the car as we pass by from Texarkana to Rich Mountain.

UP 9377 races through the Louisiana woods, easily making train speed. In a few minutes, however, the fast ride will be over as the dispatcher stabs the train because of traffic around Shreveport.

With the sun low in the Louisiana sky, UP 9377 and NS 3183 are reflected in a small pond as they back their train into Sibley siding.

With trains coming at them, the dispatcher forced UP 9377 to back into Sibley siding. The signal is always lit to tell crews whether the switch is lined for the main or for the siding, as seen her... (more)

TFM 1436 bursts out of one of two tunnels in downtown Vicksburg, and begins its decent to the yard and the Mississippi River bridge.