A shorter north bound UP intermodal drifts around Clear Creek Canyon and is moments from it’s head end going into tunnel 3 while it’s rear end simultaneously goes into tunnel 5 above.
A pair of EMD SD70ACe pump out heavy smoke as they get their 17,500 ton coal train moving on a 1.4% grade of Spruce as the DP motors of an empty coal train head north on main track 2.
The sun has cracked the horizon as a BNSF coal train crosses Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, at 6:16 a.m. on July 11, 2023. This particular train is powered by four BNSF EMD SD70ACe locomotives... (more)
Making its maiden voyage in new paint on the point of 28R, Reading heritage engine 1067 basks in the morning sunlight as it crosses the Tugalo River into South Carolina. This train will terminate ... (more)
91Z gets headroom at Butner while performing some switch moves prior to spotting the quarry with their ballast hoppers.
One of the Joint Lines 'rescue motors", BNSF 9026, sits idle in the spur track of Spruce with a pair of bad order coal cars coupled behind it. Normally, a lone BNSF locomotive waits in the sp... (more)
Willow Creek This manifest has been dropping down the the east slope of the Continental Divide since it crossed the Summit at Marias Pass. The train is passing the Lewis and Clark monum... (more)
Scan This Engine To Find Out How Much It Will Cost! Norfolk Southern Corp “Bar Code Unit” (1111, SD70ACe) is in charge of train 52M to return empty grain cars on the morning of Thursday... (more)
A ballast train gets spotted up at Butner on a very hot morning in northeastern NC.
A ballast train crosses Falls Lake on the AD Line bound for Butner with the NYC unit leading.
A BNSF manifest climbs up the curves of Allard in the late afternoon sun of a perfect spring day.
Southbound Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8437 with LOf 67,the Guadalupe Local, rolls through the Sunset back to Gemco Yard in Los Angeles.
An empty ballast train leans into the curve in downtown Durham with the NYC Heritage Unit leading.
Incorporating historic colors and graphic elements of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, No. 1989 pays tribute to the men and women of the railroad who "went everywhere the hard way.&q... (more)
UP 1111 & 2682 westbound with a Global 2 to Lathrop California intermodal train.