Submitting scanned slides now, I present winter in the swamps of southern Louisiana as BNSF train H-NWOBEL (High Priority Manifest - New Orleans, La., to Belén, NM) cruises westbound behind four ... (more)

Still with its high-nose and still in FNM two-tone blue, TFM 1145 and a grey, chop-nosed brother work on a work train south of the TFM intermodal facility at Salinas-Victoria, north of Monterrey i... (more)

Frequently, the New Orleans Public Belt Railway entertains various groups on board its business car "City of New Orleans" on trips to the top of the Huey P. Long Bridge. The train will back up th... (more)

The tracks belong to the CSX, but the crew works for Union Pacific. The QLIHL is built by the UP at its hump yard at Livonia, Louisiana, and its destination is Hamlet, North Carolina, on the CSX.... (more)

The skyline of downtown New Orleans looms overhead as KCS train #53, the transfer run to the CSX, prepares to leave the KCS yard on its way to the New Orleans Public Belt Railway's Cotton Warehous... (more)

Union Pacific intermodal train I-LBNO (Long Beach, Ca., to New Orleans, La.) is less than 10 miles from its destination at CSX's Gentilly Yard in New Orleans as it eases down the eastern approach ... (more)

TFM 1045, an MP15AC, spends a cool January evening at the Alstom facility in Monterrey as a GE still in FNM two-tone blue idles beside.

Few things are more iconic of New Orleans area railroading than the street-running in the city of Gretna. The NOGC leases this stretch of ex-SP track on Fourth Street from the UP. One street clo... (more)

It's a beautiful "Día del Año Nuevo" as KCSM conductor Pablo Pérez Espinoza, a veteran of the TFM and FNM, stands front and center with his back to his train (and the camera) as he watches MofW... (more)

Amtrak's northbound CRESCENT, just a minute or so after leaving NOUPT, leaves the NOUPT track and enters the NS "Back Belt" mainline on a Sunday morning as a southbound NS freight that will soon b... (more)

A fresh Union Pacific crew boards CSX train Q-145, the Atlanta to Los Angeles stack train, at Marconi Drive in New Orleans on the Norfolk Southern's Back Belt line, a frequent crew change point fo... (more)

Late on a calm January evening, newly delivered KCSM ES44AC 4651 slumbers the night away at the Alstom shops adjacent the KCSM headquarters in Monterrey.

On the winter solstice, LDRR 1850 pulls three empty boxcars from Valentine Paper through the plowed sugar cane fields on the ex-SP Lockport Branch. The branch extends southward from Raceland para... (more)

NOGC 504, a still in its grey paint from the Qwest Corporation, and NOGC 501 have just pulled a cut of tank cars over the Harvey Canal drawbridge seen in the back. This track is the beginning of ... (more)

Westbound BNSF train M-NWOLAL (New Orleans to Lafayette, La.) has just crossed the Atchafalaya River, and the top of the lift bridge can be seen in the background.