Today was really a waterpark day and not much for trains with the cold, cloudy day. While out driving around, I heard the K39 get a warrant to leave Marquette and decided to make a trip out of it.... (more)
CPKC 113 a Montreal to Vancouver bound stack train with CP & KCS power makes its way west out of Marathon with Lake Superior and Peninsula Harbour providing the backdrop.
The Savanna, IL, to Mason City, IA, K39 local, is working west on the Mason City Sub with a 10am crew out of Dubuque that won't make MC by 10 pm tonight. While the clouds sucked for the most part,... (more)
The K39 is working west on the Mason City Sub with a 10am crew out of Dubuque that won't make MC by 10 pm tonight. While the clouds sucked for the most part, it was just right here at Ossian!
CP exercises trackage rights over the ex-Wabash, with an extra train of 77 loade autoracks. 2-137-21 cruises over the flange bearing diamond across the Ann Arbor RR. The station is still active ... (more)
CP 8130 (AC4400CWM) leads CPKC 253 (Manifest - Bensenville, IL to Davenport, IA) through Hampshire, IL into the late afternoon sunlight.
Northbound oil train rear DP engines
A lone AC44 is all that is needed on this short 252 on Memorial Day as the train winds it way down the shores of Lake Champlain.
Daily manifest train 252 is seen rounding the many bends on Lake Champlain's rugged shores - what was once the D&H's Champlain Division. Today's Memorial Day version of our train is short (as to ... (more)