WE 110 brings hoppers in Monessen to be loaded at the coke plant just ahead and will pull loads up the grueling grade up the Matt Branch to the mainline under the cover of darkness.

WE 112 on the headend of loaded coke finishes its grueling climb up the Matt Branch as a steady snow blankets the Mon Valley with snow under the cover of darkness.

A few minutes into a winter storm, WE 112 shifts around the old ArcelorMittal coke plant which has since as of last year been idled and sold to steel giant Cleveland-Cliffs.

Run-through Conrail power visits the Canadian Pacific Toronto engine terminal in Agincourt, Ontario. CP 5003 is one of only 24 GP35’s on the CP roster, and 26 in all of Canada. Coupled behind it... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s local to Harrison, Montana, heads down the 2.2% grade of the branch with six cars from the Harrison grain elevator on the afternoon of September 10, 2011. The local works out... (more)

Burlington Northern GP35 #2582, built December 1965, heading for its Memphis bound train. #2582 was delivered as Frisco #732 and was scrapped August 1986

Former CB&Q GP35 2543 and an Erie Lackawanna F3B lead an early BN train at the Saint Anthony Parkway overpass in Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

Alabama Southern Yard job 111 has just finished dropping off a cut of cars in Northport and is seen here crossing over the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, AL., on their way back to their yard w... (more)

Alabama Southern Yard job 111 has just finished dropping off a cut of cars in Northport and is seen here getting ready to cross the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, AL., on their way back to the... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s local out of Logan hauls one car up to the grain elevator on the 2.2% grade mountain grade of the Harrison Branch approaching milepost 6 on September 10, 2011.

There are multiple impressive wooden trestles along the former Tennessee Central line between the mine at Crab Orchard and the interchange in Rockwood. Some are remote but unless you hike in from ... (more)

A mixed bag of Conrail and CNW EMDs await their next move at the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Paul Meyer photo.

Former BNSF 2504 is now part of the AOK roster and is supposed to be painted into RI inspired colors but who knows when or if that will happen....