SBD #7052 opens the throttles as it leaves Troy, AL, heading for Brundidge, Ozark, Dothan, and points beyond.

Sunny Snow Day on Cajon...

A Santa Fe westbound rounds the curve into Cajon, in the heart of southern California's Cajon Pass, on a snowy January day in 1988. The train has five aut... (more)

A pair of BN GEs shove a loaded BNSF Powder River coal train the last mile over the summit at Palmer Lake on the Joint Line. The red number boards on 5106 denote this unit as having been upgraded... (more)

Westbound UP grain empty Loring, KS.

On their way from their birthplace to their new home on the Santa Fe, five brand new C30-7’s travel west out of Conrail’s Collinwood yard.

Colton, Not West Colton.

Rolling past the Colton station and approaching the famed Colton Crossing (where the Southern Pacific crosses the Santa Fe / Union Pacific) is a westbound Sa... (more)

Running errands in Springfield, I saw this westbound stuck by a train on the ICG at Starnes Tower. When I got back to Jacksonville, I knew - thanks to the fast running on the former Wabash line -... (more)

A westbound NS train bound for Birmingham passes a couple of Opelika landmarks; one well-known, one not so well known. In the distance is the Lee County Courthouse, probably the most prominent bu... (more)

After meeting a Westbound this Helena-Laurel manifest departs the siding at Louisville under ominous skies. To the west it is mostly sunny in Helena. Snow squalls to the north gave it the definite... (more)

The curve through Loachapoka is superelevated, which is great for southbounds running downhill at 50+, but tough on the lower, inside rail when northbounds drag up the grade at 10-12 mph. This so... (more)

On the descent – This westbound Santa Fe intermodal train is near the end of the mountainous scenery of Cajon pass as it passes through Keenbrook, California. That doesn’t mean that the heavy ... (more)

Traveling westbound past Tonville, Colorado, is a Burlington Northern coal train on July 7, 1985. Five locomotives power the Denver-bound train on the Brush Subdivision, with a mix of three GE C30... (more)

NS C30-7 8032 leading a southbound at Birmingham || Spring 1985

A colorful Elko, Nevada to Pocatello, Idaho manifest freight rambles through Buena Vista, three miles west of downtown Salt Lake City on March 16, 1996.

Cresting a rise in the rolling Illinois farmland, a westbound Burlington Northern coal train is west of Earlville on the Chicago to Galesburg main line on April 16, 1988. Powering the train of BN ... (more)