A former NS highhood GP38-2 is on the head end of a set of NS motors destined for the PowerRail shop in Monroe, Georgia. They are seen here tied down along the Great Walton Railroad beneath the ri... (more)

Subtle northern lights illuminate the horizon while the approach signal illuminates the ground on the CN Keenan sub.

Montana Rail Link EMD SD19-1 No. 651, a prototype rebuild of a SD9 from MRL’s Livingston Shop, rests at Paradise, Montana, after a week of work on the Paradise local on September 22, 2006. A cle... (more)

Marooned

The red signal indicates that there is nothing coming north from Two Harbors for a while, but all eyes were on the sky on this night.

A quiet night with the Northern Lights doing their thing in the sky and the signal at S. Fairlane doing its thing.

All Just A Blur | Just a couple of hours after midnight on the morning of Sunday, June 25, 2023, southbound CPKC manifest train M262 cruises down the Rich Mountain grade at Eagleton, AR. Li... (more)

Not much going on trackside but the sky was full of action as the Northern Lights were dancing.

The northern lights shine bright in Duluth, Minnesota as the North Shore Scenic Railroad slumbers awaiting the day's excursions.

The Milky Way makes itself known in the sky on a Summer night over CP Summit in Vaughn on the Hagerstown District. The former Norfolk & Western CPLs stand guard just as they have for many, many ye... (more)

The Norfolk & Western era CPLs stand guard at CP Ellis Run in Lithia under a star filled sky.

Under the milky way

It's 0130 and nothing is southbound on the CN Iron Range sub, and nothing is southbound on the CN Rainy sub, but the northern lights above were full of action here at the Ramshaw diamond.

Under a plethora of stars on a clear Montana night, the Northern Pacific-era cantilevered signal announces the dispatcher’s decision to route a BNSF train west on Montana Rail Link’s main line... (more)

Green over red on the signal and red over green in the sky as a southbound CN freight hums along the Rainy sub about to cross over the Ramshaw diamond.