Ice-cold, corn-fed, bio-fuel headed for New Jersey passing through Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
CP Torontos Yard master works away on one of his four monitors plus additional camera screens over head showing the many angles of the yard. Note the many different types of banana and apple stick... (more)
The Great Northern hasn't been though Edmonds in over 30 years, but the famous GN herald still glows bright in the station. Looking down on the Train Bulletin, we see Amtrak's 4 daily Cascades sta... (more)
These eyes watch you. They control you. They move you. They stop you.
This is the north switch at Fairburn and it is blown in with Tumble weeds. We used a switch broom to clean out the points before throwing the switch. The first 5 cars of our pickup where "Drifte... (more)
The sun, filtered through a thin band of cirrus clouds, is about to set almost directly down the Illinois Railway's Ottawa line, just after its last train of the day has headed down it.
Early morning sunrise at rotave as a ballast regulator works at the siding.
Prairie railroading! This is the north switch at Fairburn and it is blown in with Tumble weeds. The first 5 cars of our pickup where "Drifted" in with tumble weeds up to 9 feet high.
While counting the rings on this tie made me think of how the life of the frog that it sits on is over and the life of the tie has just begun. The age of the tree that made this tie was probally ... (more)
Pre-dawn "High Green" at Brighton Park, back when the count down to the end was on.
Truck and tank car used to fill propane at sidings blowers
An industrial diesel shunter in the yard at Keighley on the KWVR.
With their work done for the day, a CSX truck shoves ballast cars back across the Ohio to clear the main.
Union Pacific's Cheyenne Depot was completed in 1887.