The overnight freight has just arrived Anchorage from Fairbanks and because Flint Hills Refinery is the railroad's largest customer the railroad will use the road power to spot the tank farm with ... (more)

A duo of EMD SDL39 locomotives drag a long freight train, and cross the Malleco Viaduct (with its 102 meters high, 348 meters long and 122 years of life).

Five 18Es bring a long coal drag pass a patch of cosmos flowers a sure sigh winter is on it's way on the highveld

Five grubby 18Es bring a long coal drag up the climb to Argent

EMDX SD70M demonstrators 7002, 7001, and 7000 along with an EMD test car drag U14415 up the hill into Manchester during a test run in May 1993, before the 70M was an everyday sight. For an update... (more)

EMDX 1202 and 1203 lugs two dead CSX motors and 7700 tons of freight up the hill towards a stop at the Manchester Yard Office. To see this scene featuring SD70M demos from 20 years ago, see phot... (more)

The Union Pacific rarely assigns manned helpers to shove trains from Ogden to Wahsatch on the Evanston Sub. On February 16, 2013 an SD40-2/SD70M combo team up to push a 188 car West Colton, CA to ... (more)

Back in the pre-C40-8 1980s, CSX used small B-Bs (often U18Bs and GP16s) to pick up sand loads at the pits east of Montgomery and head for Williams Brothers in Atlanta. Some days it was quite a l... (more)

Rolling east at a steady 30mph near Hannahville the DMIR 315,170,209,312 and 90 loads of Minorca ore are fighting through a fairly heavy Upper Michigan snow squall. Most years these winter only Mi... (more)

Coal loads with MAC's 9466,9620,9671 are crawling along at 10mph as they work up Walker Hill. Not long before this 5-6 SD40-2 or C30-7/U30C's would have been powering this train.

A B30-7 leads a GP38-2 and B23-7 (still in Seaboard System colors) south over the hilly ex-ACL line between Montgomery and Dothan.

Iowa Interstate's daily Blue Island to Council Bluff's Westbound manifest train is led by class engine #500 as it heads toward Iowa City.

With 9625 on the point, three PRR Alco FA-2 units drag a freight eastward along the Ohio River by the old commuter stop of Avalon, just on the west side of Pittsburgh, Pa. (Patrons would exit on... (more)

For the first time, all five of the West Virginia Central RR's locomotives have been MU'd together for freight service. The BL2 - FP7A - FP7B - GP9 - FP7A consist is in the 8th notch as the locomo... (more)

Union Pacific train OVWWO 12 (Ore, Vancouver WA to Wendover UT) passes under Interstate 15 as it approaches North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah. This train, comprised of all CHTT gondolas of mixed... (more)