A Rare Bird Around These Parts Haulage rights train NS 117 (CSX Z345-07) is giving all it's worth as two generation of GE locomotive pulls the 7,000+ foot long manifest up the 1.... (more)

A Rare Bird Around These Parts Leaning into the curve on main 2 track through Aetna Hollow in the mountain community of Whiteside, TN, Haulage right CSX Z345-07 (NS 117) slowly ea... (more)

A Rare Bird Around These Parts The haulage right CSX Z345-07 (NS 117) is about .7 miles at the crest of Raccoon Mountain grade just north of the TN/GA Stateline in Whiteside, TN (... (more)

It was a real treat to catch two Santa Fe cowl unit as the sole power of a train. SDP40Fu 5261 and F45 5956 round a big sweeping curve east of East Guam, New Mexico.

M357 leaves Homewood with a BC Rail leader.

BCOL C40-8M 4604 departs Homewood with CN M357.

Eastbound CMQ train Job #2 is seen crossing the Moosehead River at 0019hrs running on its nocturnal schedule for the month of October.

Westbound CMQ Job #1 passes by the old CP section house at Bodfish running on a nocturnal schedule during the month of October.

Before the SD60F's were retired. A triple EMD lashup (CN 5533, CN 5474 & CN 8904) is leading CN 120 eastbound after departing Taschereau Yard in Montreal on a foggy morning in 2014. Since t... (more)

CN C40-8M 2435 and SD70I 5613 depart Jasper with train Q119 after a crew change.

The DMVW runs a 50 car coal train from Falkirk Mine near Coleharbor to Spritwood once every 5-15 days. To run this train today the Max Local dropped off a 3rd unit to the coal train for the trip f... (more)

A coal train bound for Spritwood is working south towards Bismarck with 50 loads. Here the train passes thru the small town of Wilton about 17 miles north of Bismarck. A 3rd "kicker" uni... (more)

Three former CN SD60Fs sit in Joliet yard, on their way to their new home at the DMVW.

Very rarely do trains use this line. But today was an exception. Norfolk Southern delivered to Ohi-Rail a string of empty coal hoppers to store on this line. The train was run by two ex-Amtrak F40... (more)

BCOL C40-8Ms 4619 and 4607 coast towards Fitzwilliam with a 95 car loaded grain train.