A coal drag for the Carolinas snakes beneath a mountain backdrop turned ablaze by fall colors. Clinchfield signals still guard the control point here at Allen.

A pair of WNYP Alcos lead a special move with one of Amtrak's Avelia trainsets in tow from the Alstom Facility in Hornell, bound for storage at the yard in Olean. The train is about to pass under ... (more)

The Mankato to Aurora turn heads west on the Tracy Sub past the old CNW depot in S*eepy Eye (more context towards the end) on a very hot and muggy summer evening. As much as I like summer, I don't... (more)

Lightning Striped. The third MTA Metro-North Railroad 40th Anniversary "heritage unit" was outshopped from North White Plains on the night of Tuesday November 7, 2023. The lightni... (more)

CSXT 1776 leads M415 at track speed heading southbound on the James River Bridge. After being held up for several hours, CSX finally was able to get the train into Richmond. Due to the train havin... (more)

A NS coal train passes the old coaling tower at CP Farm.

A trio of SD40Ns lead LTS82A over the Red Cedar River in Menomonie. In another mile or so, they will run around their train at Menomonie Jct. before heading back east to work Cardinal Glass and Br... (more)

UP 1943 - Spirit of Union Pacific rolls through New Braunfels on the old International & Great Northern, nee Missouri Pacific, a line that was built in 1880. Here it is crossing San Antonio Street... (more)

Four units lead Z151 Marquette Rail Northbound in Grant Michigan in late Fall with some nice color in the area

After a day of running up to the NS interchange in Radebaugh and servicing various customers along the line, the Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad's SWP-02 job arrives back at the yard office in Sco... (more)

Shortly after departing Angola, 765 heads north through the backwoods of northern Indiana. This will be the final excursion 765 would pull for the year.

A manifest from Amarillo, Texas heads up the St. Croix Sub towards Minneapolis, with a trio of H2 GEs, in colorful Maiden Rock.

A pair of GP38-2's and an SD35 hustle the Great Lakes Central's OSTN job south through Cohoctah, Michigan, passing by the Kent grain elevator complex as a misty rain falls.

Standing above the Hitchcock tunnel, we have a great view of a set of empty coal hoppers grinding upgrade on the CSX Mountain Sub's 17 Mile Grade.

Popping out if the Falls Cut tunnel heading eastbound, we see BNSF 4708 still wearing it's Santa Fe colors leading grain loads.