Such a treat to see two SD75Ms leading a train again...even if they are in H2 paint. Speaking of which, these two show the subtle contrast in the H2 BNSF font on the longhood. A beautiful and ma... (more)

The Pikes Peak Local breezes northbound bound for Big Lift with a lone covered hopper. It's always nice to catch an SD40-2 on the Joint Line, even with a giant faded red patch on the long hood!

A surprisingly clean BNSF 9700 leads coal empties north through Palmer Lake. I've been seeing a lot of matched Executive MAC sets on the Joint Line lately, not sure why, but they beat the heck ou... (more)

The first unit from ARR's second order of SD70MACs leads the southbound Denali Star on the final stretch of track before hitting the yard limit in Anchorage. Join us and share at Railroad: Alaska Railroad
Locomotive: EMD SD70MAC
Location: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, USA
Locomotive #: ARR 4317
Train ID: Denali Star
Photo Date: June 04, 2012

After arriving from the south, it's time to add some passengers and change crews for this pull-pull cruise train before it heads north to McKinley. This train will come back south to Whittier and... (more)

Doing it the old fashioned way, the conductor uses hand signals to guide the engineer back onto the daily H-train. I'm starting to think NS is taking over based on all of their power we see up he... (more)

MNN 901 rests quietly on the west end of the yard. The Gopher playing hockey and the text on the cab honors the past hockey state champions along MNN's lines.

Two of Wichita, Tillman, & Jackson's GP7s bask in the late evening sun in the yard in Altus.

A classic profile in a classic paint scheme, BNSF 119 leads the daily South Local back to the yard after a morning of switching. Hard to think that the GP60M represents the end of the line for fa... (more)

It's getting late in the tourist season and the Denali Star is showing it with a rather short train, seen here about to pull off the main track and into the depot in downtown Anchorage.

The class unit of Alaska Railroad's SD70MACs steps it out as it heads northbound through Wasilla after meeting the southbound Aurora Winter Train just south of town.

Assigned to the grain elevator in Oslo, NPR 2287, an ex-Kansas Southwestern unit, rests on a lazy Sunday...

UP 8014 leads a manifest westbound on the wrong main due to MoW work on Main 1, seen behind the lone Big MAC.

A trio of EMDs lead a long Grand Forks - Northtown H-train south into Gardner, paralleling the old Great Northern pole line running the distance between The Forks and Fargo.

On the curve and in the snow at Arvilla, this Swoosh paint is getting a taste of North Dakota winter on the point of M-SUPMIN.