On the way up to the Minorca mine with limestone loads as the first significant snowfall of the season is happening.

The railroad that never was - a westbound lead by a tunnel motor wearing the SPSF scheme is about to pass the only caboose Southern Pacific painted for the never-consummated merger.

One of the trains detoured on the Modoc Line due to flood damage in the Sacramento River Canyon descends the grade between Sage Hen and Likely, California. In less than six months, this trackage w... (more)

An eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line descends Viewland Hill into the Honey Lake Valley. The train will stop for a crew change at Wendel in less than ten minutes.

A trio of DMIR SD40-3's and taconite loads.

Rolling into Pacific Harbor Lines' Pier A Yard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington are a pair of EMD 6-axle diesels: Locomotive Leasing Partners SD38-2 2808 (the former Reserve Mining 1... (more)

Humming along passing through Iron Jct., MN, DMIR 400 heads back to Proctor, MN with still steaming taconite loads.

Even in Utah desert country, the Price River brings autumn colors to the short canyon between Mounds and Wash on the afternoon of October 6, 2004. Curving through the scene is a trio of Rio Grande... (more)

Humming along passing through Iron Jct., MN, BLE 909 heads back to Proctor, MN with ore cars used to deliver limestone to the Minorca mine.

A few minutes into their trip and a few miles south of Minorca Jct., BLE 906 heads back to Proctor, MN on a typical fall afternoon.

The engineer of BLE 904 puts the throttle in the 8th notch and his EMD veterans billow clouds of spent diesel fuel in an effort to accelerate 57 blast furnace trim loads towards Two Harbors.

An eastbound Rio Grande freight departs Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1987. A pair of EMD SD40T-2s bracket a newer EMD SD50 for power on the train that is paralleling a nearly empty I-70 ... (more)

Siskiyou Line SDs lay over at the Medford depot on a Saturday afternoon.

Union Pacific’s LJP45 dirt train local rolls westward from the rotor at East carbon Development Corporation (ECDC) landfill at East Carbon, Utah, on April 7, 2005. The local is led by Rio Grande... (more)

The BLE trio heads past the former Saginaw station on its way to Proctor