At sunset as the shadows creep eastward, a UP westbound accelerates after meeting a stack train at Hawley.

With a pair of speed lettered SP units inherited from the merger, Union Pacific's MHKYR drags 87 cars of mixed freight through the Tooele Valley approaching Warner.

Southbound T-bird heads for Fairlane.

Union Pacific's OMIGV (Minnetac to Geneva iron ore train) snakes through Grant Tower in Salt Lake City.

Loaded crude ore train rolls south for the Fairlane processing plant on a pleasant spring day.

Four fairly new GE C40-8s in the very forgettable "stealth" paint scheme are westbound on NS trackage rights at Sunbright, VA in 1989.

A westbound CSX freight pops out of Carothers Tunnel on the Magnolia Cut-off--a major construction project of the B&O dating to the WWI era. The distinctive B&O CPL signals are probably gone by no... (more)

In the waning afternoon light a pair of Dash 8 standard cab units idle away on the West Point Siding with the short local train of A746 as the train waits for a new crew to finish today’s work.

A pair of former North Western GEs split a highway intersection on their way back to the Thunderbird North mine for another load of iron ore.

Dust flies as two T-Bird raw iron ore trains pass at speed between the mine and processing plant. CN uses pairs of former C&NW GEs in this service, one of the few assignments on the former DM&IR t... (more)

The Keenan Road Switch heads north on the far track as a T-Bird rolls through Iron Junction headed for Fairlane.

CSX train Q216 is seconds away from passing beneath the PA 51 bridge and meeting westbound intermodal train Q015. Two more eastbounds are ahead of 216, waiting for a clear block to enter the singl... (more)

Leader of the pack, CN 2100 (née CNW 8553) sits pretty on the shop track at Fort Erie, ON with CN 421's power that came down earlier in the day.

On a warm January day, I found this new spot hidden behind the old waste facility in northern Dayton. A nice looking veteran dash 8 leads the train south on the busy Toledo main.