A trio of "Baby Trainmasters" [1683-1698-1904; all with different builder dates] are easily handling the task of getting a loaded ore train out of Iron Mountain. The fireman or head brakeman is gi... (more)

A pair of NS Dash 9's lead a lengthy drag freight down the OC Ramps, coming off the Mon Line to take the Fort Wayne Line into Conway Yard.

A pair of Alaska RR SD70MACs lead a loaded gravel train off of the Palmer Branch at Matanuska Junction, the branch's junction with the ARR mainline. The train will run south of Anchorage to one of... (more)

It is a glorious fall day along Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage, Alaska. The fall colors dot the mountainside as a lengthy train off the barge in Whittier heads north at aptly named, at least in ... (more)

After a fun chase from Whittier (two-thirds of which was in the rain - but who cares!) we grab our final shot of the morning. Looking down from the Old Seward Hwy overpass the full length of the ... (more)

Autumn is fleeting in Alaska with the peak foliage lasting only a day or two it seems. If one wants to get out and shoot trains amidst the color the window is extremely narrow. Knowing that a no... (more)

Autumn is very short in Alaska with the peak foliage lasting only a day or two it seems. If one wants to get out and shoot trains amidst the color the window is extremely narrow. Knowing that a ... (more)

A decent array of power leads the daily US-Canada northbound freight arrives in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario with a long heavy drag consisting mainly of ore loads destined for the blast furnaces at E... (more)

Westbound, Ex-New Haven C-425 and U25B, renumbered Penn Central 2458 and 2681, move from the Shoreline to the Naugatuck route via the east leg of the wye at Devon Tower. Train is enroute to Maybro... (more)

With monsoonal storms all around, a five minute keyhole of light briefly illuminates a westbound drag freight sporting an outstanding power lashup on the BNSF transcon between Los Lunas and Laguna... (more)

On a splendid Friday evening the ARR's regular nightly Anchorage Fairbanks freight is only 30 minutes out of its origin as it clips along through the wilderness on the vast Joint Base Elemdorf-Ric... (more)

A surprising leader in that of a GP40-2 pulls today's Q576 past the control point of Bell St. with relief crew Y303 at the helm. Soon all the US&S search lights will be no more, replaced by the d... (more)

Eastbound ore train from Iron Mountain to Escanaba

Three SD70MACs lead 92 loads and just shy of 7000 ft. of flat cars consisting of southbound containers for the Northland Services barge connection in Seward. This big train is curling across the ... (more)