A tired old dash 8 pounds along climbing the grade out of the Des Moines River Valley on the BNSF Marceline Sub. The train is about to the top at Revere and will pickup alittle speed, trying hard ... (more)

Circa 2014, "Ex. Con" CSX 7360 with a GEVO pulls the hotshot Q161 westbound through the Village of Saint Johnsville back on a hot summer afternoon in July 2014 over 9 years ago.

Coal trains on the Santa Fe race track looked out of place. These York Canyon Coal trains were heading to McCook and points east. Usually, these heavy trains got 3-4 big GEs for power. As seen he... (more)

Family Portrait Vintage stored locomotives baking in the early-April sun in Cumberland. Cumberland's dead line is one of the few, if not the only place, where one can see all 3 CSX paint s... (more)

Stressed out and in need of rest I took a sentimental journey to my old haunts in the spring thirty one years ago. In Cordele I found this Electric Fuels unit coal train headed for Florida. Ver... (more)

848 leads SD75M 232 and Dash 9-44CW 687 climbing the grade towards Bealville.

Looking pretty good after a few years, a small relief from "stealth" is on the point of a southbound train.

Bought by Conrail, owned by Norfolk Southern, operating on CSX with an MPI leaser this unit is tiptoeing down the center of Main Street in about the only mainline street running left. Oh, be sure... (more)

GE Dash 8-40CW 943, along with 3 classmates and GP40X 3801, leads eastbound doublestacks into the canyon.

Westbound exiting Crozier Canyon. Trailing units are Dash 8-40BW 509 and SF30C 9550.

Eastbound coal has topped the grade at a place variously called Horton's Summit, McRae, and Nora over the years. The short steep pull up from Duffield made for beautiful music. At one time Foote... (more)

Eastbound mixed freight hurrying (a fast as possible) down the hollers to get to somewhere.

Westbound merchandise.

D8-40CW 873 leads C30-7 8155, D8-40BW 509 and D8-40CW 807 round the loop.

At 5:58 p.m. on June 15, 1991, Conrail GE C40-8W leads a westbound CR freight through a curve just west of Otis, Indiana, on the railroad’s busy Chicago to Elkhart main line.