An ES44C4 shoves hard on a long stack train with the San Francisco mountains soaking up the sun.

Two former NS SD60s wait for another coal train to shove up or down the Secondary.

Big Little Shortline. While some railroads have been struggling from Pandemic-related limitations, Great Lakes Central has been acquiring more power and gaining customers this year. But at the ... (more)

Still wearing the timeless "Bluebonnet" scheme and sitting under the big, blue sky known well out West, BNSF 2779 is resting between switching cars in Phoenix.

N&W 611 brings a caboose hop out of the North Carolina Transportation Museum. Although this is still along museum grounds, it almost looks like it could be out on an excursion.

No meets today. Indeed, meets are scarce these days on this portion of the Indiana Sub, with J780 having the line all to itself here, passing the only intact siding left between Mitchell and Seymo... (more)

A former Illinois Central, originally Illinois Central Gulf, GP38-2 leads a short local long hood forward out of Flat Rock yard and across Fort Street in Trenton.

After the crew ran out of hours on the outskirts of Concord, a couple railfans and I had an impromptu photo shoot with the wide-cab geep.

Undoubtedly the most well-known spot on the old Ann Arbor heading north out of Owosso, Carland Elevator stands tall as Western Maryland 7471 rolled past heading back south.

KN381 exits Wilson, one of six tunnels on the West Virginia Secondary, in the first snowfall of winter.

A Northeast Regional stops in Manassas after the craze over 611 earlier that day.

As a kid growing up in Athens, I spent hours some days waiting at Armitage hoping for a train. Most of the time nothing showed up, but when I was lucky enough to catch a train, it made all the wai... (more)

Thanks to the angular front of an EMD, I got some noselight in Langsville.

Although KCS's flag has fallen, I was able to get a nearly 'pure' image of the railroad (spoiled by one CP interloper hidden behind the fuel rack), with Kansas City in the background. This is, in ... (more)

C&O Searchlights at Sunrise...a scene you almost want to disappear into.