Amtrak P42DC 94,leads AMTK train 4 into La Plata,MO
Flares Down the Fourth: With sets of SD45-2s running on a railroad that hasn't changed much since the 1970s (Note the Northern Pacific cantilever signal and telegraph wires) it's easy to se... (more)
A westbound on track one streaks under the Santa Fe signal bridge in Toluca as the dispatcher has lined up another westbound on track two. Going to be a busy night on the Transcon.
A hot WB stack train passes through the town of Toluca as it ducks under the Santa Fe searchlights in some sweet evening light. With all of the searchlights replaced west of Galesburg, it's only a... (more)
Last light and one more train for me coming around the curve and under the endangered SF cantilever signals.
A container train splits the new signals on its way through Circleville.
CSXT train K185-01 (Toledo Docks-Middletown) is northbound on the Toledo Subdivision at intermediate signal 46.2. This profile retains the date of departure on the return leg, much like CSX coal t... (more)
Last light and a moonrise and the endangered SF cantilever signals.
The Wax Train is headed south.
This past winter, heavy snow squalls dumped inches of snow within minutes. A set of helpers drifts downhill under a soon to be demolished PRR signal bridge.
A couple of former NP U-33-C’s on the old NP lead a modest westbound freight through semaphores near Cyr, Montana on Aug. 7, 1973. The U boats were only four years old.
Westbound intermodal 233 passes the CPL at Gate, which looks a little worse for wear and seems to be leaning a bit towards the Tug Fork.
CP 2226 leads a short G35 west through Bensenville.
The "Train From Hell" gets moving after the last car has cleared the wye in town.
UP 4305 is on the point of an eastbound stack train running through the crossovers at CP La Plata on BNSF Marceline Subdivision.