An empty UP Intermountain coal train begins up the Dotsero Cutoff along the Colorado River

Iron Ridge A BNSF oil train rounds the 10 degree curve and climbs the 2.2% grade at Iron ridge on Mullan Pass. The train is bound for Pacific Coast refineries and acts as a pipeline as th... (more)

This is one happy locomotive sporting its smiley face on the faded KCS emblem on the side of the cab of KCS 4704.

Its looking more like the KCS than the usual CP in Franklin Park on this day. KCS 4704 and KCS 2016 works the east end of Bensenville Yard on a beautiful summer morning. KCS 2016 would be shipped ... (more)

An empty UP coal train is eastbound at 'Agate' in desolate eastern Utah

Lilly Leapers: NS 8025, the Monongahela Heritage Unit, and NS 8102, the Pennsylvania Railroad Heritage Unit, lead westbound loaded trash train NS 63V through Lilly, Pennsylvania.

The NS 6K4, with a rare CP leader, crosses the Chicago Line bridge over the Vermilion River in Vermilion, Ohio.

The sanders are working hard on this pair of KCS units as they pull a long heavy cut of cars out of Bensenville Yard while performing switching duties.

A pair of Union Pacific locomotives – UP ES44AC 7679 and AC6000CW 7026 (ex-UP 7046, née-UP 7372) – hold while the switchman throws a switch as they are repositioned in the Marshalltown Yard a... (more)

Rolling eastward across the expansive prairies, having just crossed from Colorado into Nebraska, is BNSF Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train Z-DENCHC3-25U, ferrying trailers and containers from Denv... (more)

The CSX heritage locomotive program sure has brightened the roster up! Chessie rides the Mountain sub again. C739 from Metikki Mine out side of Bayard, WV waits for a recrew to head east to Baltim... (more)

The Chessie mullet brings loaded grain train G407 across the Etowah River outside of Cartersville

NS empties cruise west towards Bluefield

Windmill train CN X319 is changing crews at Turcot Ouest, one of the last of these to run. The producer of these pieces (LM Wind Power) switched from producing 47-metre long blades to 107-metre on... (more)

A southbound rock train passes the historic McNeil Post Office and Austin White Lime general store. Founded in 1888, Austin White Lime operated for 135 years until its closure on March 31st, 2024.... (more)