Under the watchful eye of Mt. Capulin, a beautiful (dormant) cinder cone volcano (and a National Monument), an empty coal works back toward Wyoming. This train is sliding down from Des Moines (660... (more)
Two random pedestrians stop for a chit chat while train 314 rolls past.
NS hasn't placed a priority on washing their power in the 2020s, so it's nice to see the relatively clean Wabash Heritage leading a train over Braswell Mountain.
An EMD leader brings 350 onto the CSX S Line main at Cary.
Over the hump of Trinchera Pass, and just about a mile north of the Colorado/New Mexico border, an empty northbound coal begins the winding path across southern Colorado toward the crew change poi... (more)
After waiting out the Metra rush, CP 528 clears the old EJ&E diamond and passes the venerable Rondout Tower. Bringing up the rear as a DPU is the Kansas City Southern veterans unit.
SD70ACe #4006, the Kansas City Southern veterans unit is sitting pretty in the Wadsworth siding. In charge of CPKC train 528, it would sit in the siding for the next four hours to let higher prior... (more)
Thundercabs: A duo of UP SD70ACes in the form of #8444 and #8375 lead Chicago Clearing to Selkirk manifest train M36811 out of Syracuse as they accelerate through CP-280 in a perfectly timed sun s... (more)
Thundercabs: A duo of UP SD70ACes in the form of #8444 and #8375 lead Chicago Clearing to Selkirk manifest train M36811 through the freshly remodeled CP-VO on the last leg of their journey into Se... (more)
Paralleling the Middle Loup River, BNSF Railway freight train H-CASLIN9-15A heads for Lincoln NE from Casper WY. Engineer Pitt has 11,000 horsepower at his disposal, in the form of a pair of SD70... (more)
BNSF 9018 (SD70ACe) takes a loaded coal train into the siding at Tonville, Colorado.
Due to mechanical issues with NS #8104 for having a constant crankcase overpressure alert they waited at Jenkinsburg, GA for a meet with southbound coal train #732 and grabbed the rear DPU for 24A... (more)
Southern Pacific heritage finds the morning sun leading east towards Atlanta.
Manifest Westbound thru Lyons Yard with
NS 54V passes NS 290 at CP Wells, as they make their way south on the Atlanta South District..
