A nice spring snow falls on BLE 909 as they head off the Minntac sub shortly and will then run down the Missabe sub back to Proctor with these empty limestone cars.
Denver & Rio Grande Western Train 179, the Ford Fast Freight, cruises along the Arkansas River in Cotopaxi, Colorado.
A Denver & Rio Grande Western manifest moves south through Castle Rock, Colorado. The geological formation from which the locality derives its name can be seen in the right distance.
Coal from mines along the original Denver & Rio Grande Western main line moves east through Glenwood Canyon, Colorado.
With former SP tunnel motor GEXR 3054 on the point, Buffalo & Pittsburgh's X-COAL passes by the old tower at Ashford Junction in Ashford, New York. This concrete interlocking tower was once the ju... (more)
Trona A nice lash-up of second generation six-axle locomotives blast upgrade out of the Searles Valley. The train heavy in Trona (Soda Ash) was loaded in Trona, CA at the huge chemical p... (more)
Former DMIR tunnel motor 409 leads a rail train South past the old roundhouse at Biwabik.
Not all Texas is flat! SP's #MFLAT transverses scenic Sanderson Canyon near Feodora, on the Del Rio Subdivision. This is what I call Southern Pacific in the 1980s! Photo by Reid McNaught and from ... (more)
Climbing the two-percent ramp out Leyden, Colorado, under stormy skies is Union Pacific’s westbound MDVRO manifest freight on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. Six locomotives power the train, ... (more)
U.S. Steel Minntac made taconite pellets head to Proctor, MN behind DMIR 409. Just imagine how good her maroon paint would look in this low winter afternoon light.
Just before midnight the evening beltpack yard job spots grain loads into Viterra A
A little fog in the air yet as BLE 906 is passing over the spring melt and rain swollen St. Louis River on the way to the United Taconite plant.
The inbound Searles Turn arrives at the UP interchange in the late evening.
An ex-UP SD40-2 and ex-SP SD40T-2 shove hard on the rear of the Trona's outbound Turn to Searles in the desolate landscape.
CF&E 3316, the railroad’s SD40T-2, takes CHFW across the CN Matteson Sub at Ivanhoe in Gary. The diamond is still guarded by NYC type signals on the IHB and CSX trackage. This is also the locati... (more)
