GP40 no. 2085 shares space at Genessee & Wyoming's Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern roundhouse at Huron, SD. The bright orange colors replace a long line of history at this location. Prior owner Dakot... (more)

California Northern 106, a former CNW GP15-1 leads a northbound Cascade & Columbia River freight north of Chelan Falls, WA. The train is en route from Wenatchee to Omak, having come down from Omak... (more)

A pair of SD40-2s and a radio control car splice a block of grain cars on a train rolling past the Mission City, BC station on CP's mainline into Vancouver. Mission has a small yard and junction f... (more)

WGN 6006, a former Algoma Central SD40-2 slows its train as it arrives at Louisiana Pacific west of Hayward, WI to handle switching chores. The train is returning from an interchange with CN a few... (more)

AMTK 306 brakes Train 8, The Empire Builder, to a station stop at Red Wing, MN running about an hour late on its Seattle/Portland to Chicago schedule. In less than 5 minutes the train will be on i... (more)

The westbound Canadian departs Thunder Bay, ON. The train is pulling out onto the mainline from the CP station. This station is located in what was once Ft. William.

About 60 days are left in the history of the Great Northern Ry. on this cold early January 1970 afternoon. GP20 2011 displays its historic color scheme, minus the GREAT NORTHERN lettering on the l... (more)

There are still classic Americana railway locations such as NS' Danville, KY depot and yard tower on the famous "Rathole" division operating south from Cincinnati, OH through Kentucky to Chattanoo... (more)

On my first trip west after the arrival of Heritage I units, I was rewarded with some nice sightings, included this quartet running west on a container/stack train west of Leavenworth, WA in the C... (more)

CNW SD40 883 leads a trio of power including a former Southern SD24 and torpedo-tube equipped GP35 on train 406 at Yukon Jct. as the train arrives in Eau Claire from Spooner, WI on its way to the ... (more)

UP DD35A 84 and a pair of SD24Bs make a move to attach to a southbound freight at Argo Yard, Seattle on a rainy August day that looks more like November. This was Family Days weekend and a small l... (more)

CP 5980 has survived its snowy trip through the Fraser Canyon and heads its westbound freight toward Vancouver in double track territory at De Roche, BC in snowy conditions that will continue all ... (more)

BNSF 4462 climbs upgrade above Trinidad Loop with an eastbound Z train. Looking like a dead end, the train is about to duck under a hill through the only tunnel on the former GN mainline between W... (more)

Nine years before BNSF, Alliance looked like the merger had already taken place with run through coal train power from Santa Fe on hand. It also predicted the future dominance of GE in the North A... (more)

BN 1750 leads a quartet of GP9s west on the Cle Elum Turn out of Yakima, WA just east of Cle Elum. The train will exchange trains with an eastbound counterpart from Auburn, WA and the crew will re... (more)