La Veta Pass meaning Mineral Vein Pass lies at 9242 feet at the the top of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. This eastbound train is climbing the 2.5% grade approaching the famous "loop&... (more)

Burlington Northern F9A 794 leading a train through Rices Point Yard as a DWP transfer waits in the clear at Duluth October 1976. This train likely originated at Bridge Yard in downtown Duluth and... (more)

La Veta Pass With the PRLX SD70M having had mechanical issues the day before, the F40 that does not usually see service on the hill comes along just incase issues happen again. The power i... (more)

B&O in Charm City. The B&O Railroad Museum, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is a treasure of historic railroad equipment. Its 135 foot tall 1884 Roundhouse (Passenger Car Shop) is the centerpiece ... (more)

Providence & Worcester RR B39-8 #3901 works train CT-1 switching Gateway Terminal's Chapel Street Yard on the Belle Dock Industrial Track. January 16, 2016.

MKT AS16M 126 at Parsons KS October 1968. Built as MKT 1571 in September 1950 and rebuilt by EMD in November 1958. The MKT sold these EMD/Baldwin hybrids in 1972 and power short CNW picked these u... (more)

WRIX 602 is being serviced at the Albina locomotive shop. This former SP chopped nose SD9 has recently been given a MLR-esq paint job.

CSX train Q157 (Philadelphia, PA - North Baltimore, OH) has a pair of "new" CSX SD70ACe-T4s leading the consist of double stacks. The train is seen here passing over I-90 in Batavia, NY. ... (more)

Rolling along at a good clip SB is CSX 605 now seen in the small community of Canoe, Alabama. When paced a 1/10th of a second the ST70 pops out along a smooth flowing ground. Was nice getting out ... (more)

The former Rio Grande North Yard in Denver has an assortment of power on January 7, 2002. Besides the power resting around the locomotive facility, Union Pacific’s South local is led by a pair of ... (more)

The Lindenwood Turn is running south on the TRRA's Highline safetly above the flooded Mississippi River, heading toward BNSF's Lindenwood Yard. In the first half of 2019 the Mississippi River s... (more)

An overnight snowfall covers Tehachapi pass summit. With the sun just beginning to rise, a Union Pacific manifest breaks the silence of the new day.

A BNSF manifest is coming through tunnel 3 on the Flatiron Range near Boulder County on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Geometry and geology measured in an axiom of angles converge on a tangent thr... (more)

A Conrail C36-7/SD50 combination hauls coal away from one of the mines on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg Southern branch. The train is on the huge fill at Rogersville, Pennsylvania, with part of the... (more)

Back in steam for the summer