College/work/etc. entailed weekend/holiday trips. Charge in, get shots and as Ryan Ballard said "friendly wave and a hardy hi yo silver". We we found these, but they were dead on the w... (more)

A pair of DP units shoves on the back of this Superior to Deck Mine empty coal train on the Jamestown Sub. The train is crossing the massive bridge over the Sheyenne River at Valley City. The brid... (more)

Another classic example of a customer sick and tired of the Class 1 treatment and has contracted a small time operation to their switching. As is the case as the Saturday morning crew is busy work... (more)

Looking a bit worse for wear but still elegant this special unit is leading an EB coal train on double track just east of the division point.

NYC GP9 5985, and two P&E GP7's 5623 and 5613, leads the daily train 99 from Indianaoplis to Peoria, crossing the GM&O and Monon at Bloomington, Illinois on April 29, 1959. A subsidiary of the ... (more)

Summerail weekend in Marion had most of the fans hanging out at Marion Depot. It was nice to get the group back together again for a fun weekend. Covid really sucked cancelling many events over th... (more)

A northbound CN freight rumbles and bumbles along up the CN Missabe sub passing through the control points of S. and N. Fairlane while heading to Canada as the northern lights dance in the sky abo... (more)

The Roadmaster told the crew there was a "big one" at MP 6. I have been running back and forth between Waterloo and Dubuque and haven't seen hardly anything, so I was alittle skeptical h... (more)

I heard complaints from crews about that winterized window. A bit out of place down south.

BN 6599's head end brakeman inspects BN 8159 and its eastbound train as it enters double track just north of the Edmonds station at MP 18 along Puget Sound. This location was a bottleneck for BN a... (more)

EB coal approaching the passing siding. Of course you can rationalize if you will but this is late March forty two years ago. Notice the foliage. It's late March 2023. Leaves are out, trees ar... (more)

Engineer Gary Meyer and student engineer Justin Anton pose for a picture as they wait for a dog catch crew to come take the California Zephyr into Denver. Due to lengthy delays for traffic and we... (more)

A T-Bird has pulled up and called the CN RTC desk looking for lights to leave the plant and head back to the mine to reload. Seems to be lights all around.

Unusual scale test/monitoring cars, UP 903039 & 903037, made from tank cars, were spotted in a string of test cars parked at UP's Winona yard. I've seen a lot of test cars in my life, but these ar... (more)

It's called Flattop because it's level here. Used as place to tack on helpers sometimes, crew changes, storage of cars to fill out trains. There must be a power imbalance today as a bunch of stu... (more)