A little something for the Espee fans out there as three ex-SP AC4400CWs hold things together mid-train on a Colorado Springs-bound coal train. Learn more at Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: UP 6214
Train ID: CNADR
Photo Date: May 28, 2009

Two rare sights: the Empire Builder in eastern North Dakota in daylight and an H1 unit leading the charge. The weather has been playing hell recently on transportation all across the natio... (more)

The UP Colorado Springs Local works east over Monument Creek toward Roswell with its shoving platform and a lone boxcar. Not long ago, UP 1510 was dressed in SP speed lettering, but as the new pa... (more)

1053' above the old Tennessee Pass line on the Royal Gorge bridge shows RRRR 401 and 301 leading some empties back toward Canon City.

A look at what could have been...if the Rio Grande and the caboose had survived to present day. Oh well. The UP 1989 was having air problems and was set out in Colorado Springs for the day.

The conductor kicks back as the M-SUPMIN slings westbound around the curve and into Larimore on a pleasant afternoon in eastern North Dakota. This train has seen an increase in its use of Oakways... (more)

Good thing for this Ford Hi-rail that the loaded coal in front of it is headed south and away from it!

A welcome sight in southcentral Alaska this summer, the railroad has decided to run a caboose on its AS&G Gravel trains when they back up the Palmer Branch. ARR 1069 is the only caboose in the Bo... (more)

The daily Glacier Discovery runs south at Beluga Point with a rather short train. This was a busy morning with 8 trains passing in or out of Anchorage in just 5 hours, a welcome feeling of glutto... (more)

Aside from the SD40-2, there's no better profile on a Class I railroad today than that of EMD's SD9. Seen here in classic Cascade Green and punting cars as the West Lead in the Grand Forks Yard o... (more)

The three faces of BNSF Heritage paint stare down an ACe at Academy siding. The coal loads were on the main, so I can't use the term "an ACe in the hole," but still, they had to wait patiently as... (more)

Often forgotten amidst the jaw-dropping images of glistening world-class passenger trains or 6-packs of shiny SD70MACs leading coal hoppers or Geep-led freight trains all running in overwhelmingly... (more)

Loaded coal snaking eastbound out of the Red River Valley behind a trio of typical northern plains coal power.

A mighty Oakway leads a sister SD60M and the Dilworth, MN - Grand Forks, ND manifest north over the drainage ditch at MP 97.

Yes, this is really North Dakota...who knew?!? BNSF 9911 shoves eastbound coal up the grade toward Sully Springs and through the Badlands of southwestern ND.