A Conrail unit helps out of BN SD40 as they hustle down the Aurora Sub south of Lynxville. Scanned negative from October 1992.

The morning Chicago to St. Paul hotshot is less than 20 miles from the next crew change at LaCrosse. The train skirts the Mississippi River as they pass thru Genoa. The Genoa power plant is in the... (more)

The BNSF leased alot of junk power after the merger. The railroad needed alot of power to help thru the struggles they had moving freight. Some of the leasers were these ex-ATSF C30-7s that came f... (more)

Rare leader on 105 today the first time EMD's have lead this hot train since 2013 (when it was 101)

CPs 8WWA ballast train rumbles over the wooden Crawfish River bridge on a cold and windy spring afternoon. Todays train sports a trio of six-axle EMDs.

CPs 8WWA ballast train follows closely behind another freight train, seen here slicing through the rolling hills of central Wisconsin.

With 50-60 loads of ballast fresh from the pit in Waterloo, CPs 8WWA ballast train crawls over the Crawfish River with two rebuilt SD40s and a SD30C for power. The matching red pops alongside the ... (more)

The other side of the story. A shot of the other side of this nee CNW, ex UP unit is posted elsewhere. Not a bad cheap change of color scheme.. I don't think that red sill strip is kosher by th... (more)

Winter of 1999 was approaching fast, and CSX ownership of Conrail's Boston Line had already reached six months. One could still set their watch to the parade of trains through the area of Palmer,... (more)

P43 heads under the former Southern signal bridge at Lowell with a single SD40-2 for power.

The BNSF merger was getting closer to reality by May 1995. Galesburg was about to become a major hub in the east with this merger. Lots of things would change, but for now the BN was as is with th... (more)

In the early 90s, my mother and I made a lot of trips to Galesburg for railroad days. It was some of the 1st places we went and seen major train action. The BNSF merger would make Galesburg the hu... (more)

A Union Pacific, and a Conrail SD40-2, make their way across the plains of Wyoming on the Overland Route.

Led by Iowa, Chicago & Eastern EMD SD40-2 No. 6432, a Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern freight is westbound at Dakota Junction, Nebraska, on July 14, 2008.

On a rare visit to the Kansas City area, a quartet of GM&O SD-40s have uncoupled from their train, likely #91, and are headed back to the engine house. The SD-40s were purchased by the GM&O to ha... (more)