Amtrak Train #311 streaks past P-Hill on the UP Sedalia Sub. behind a rare B32-8WH leader. The former Pepsi Cans don't call this territory home very often, and the 500's presence was necessitated... (more)
Reportedly unhappy with CP's handling of their Centerm container traffic, CN has begun running boxes over the Burrard Inlet line and New West Sub as of January. Here's 2277 leading the midday Wate... (more)
FEC 101 under a stormy sky on a windy afternoon. After a night of severe weather warnings, the skies are still angry as a large storm system moves out of the area.
Down from Tunnel #1 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub is the crossing called Blue Mountain Road. This spot one could stack the mid-train power over top the head end power on most coal trains. This was a ne... (more)
The UP had a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch was 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP used it as a coal branch out to a few mines l... (more)
Amtrak 8 heads East as it hauls through Newport. Today's train has 2 Sightseer Lounge cars, one on the rear being hauled to Chicago for repairs after having an electrical fire last Friday on 7 and... (more)
Only a little over a month after it rolled out of the GE assembly plant in Erie, Conrail C39-8 6009 leads an eastbound manifest at Riverside, just west of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Only Conrail and... (more)
A pair of BNSF units and a CSX SD40-3 power a westbound oil train through Erie, PA. Locomotives: BNSF 4677 C40-9WBNSF 8132 ES44C4CSX 4372 SD40-3
Chicago & North Western engines pull Union Pacific's APLA5 stack train through Erda, Utah on Sept. 24, 1995. Promontory Point, Antelope Island, and the Great Salt Lake are in background on this be... (more)
It's Not Delivery, It's DiGiorno; More than six hours after a semi truck was struck by a northbound manifest crews are STILL removing frozen pizza's from the front of the lead unit. Now that's w... (more)