What's wrong with this picture? Southeast Texas in the summer, late afternoon; where's the clouds?! Rare not to be getting your exercise jumping up and down screaming at the sky while the kodach... (more)

The favorite curve for the afternoon chase of trains 534 and 543 north from Bellville and Somerville, respectively; you were guaranteed nice results if you paid your penance to the cloud gods. We... (more)

After a smokey exit from the tunnel, the engineer has 'em at idle and is about to set dynamics for the downhill run to Laramie and the daily dodge of eastbound shooters while looking back for the ... (more)

I was so caught up in getting shot after shot of GE 4 axle U boats in the daylight (I worked nights in Bessemer at a pipe threading facility performing QC work), that I shrugged off many hours of ... (more)

Look closely and you might see the headend crew laughing their a@@es off at the photographer yelling at his camera because the batteries decided to give out at about the 3 roll mark....

4 unit set of 4 axle 'boats moving at shooting speed slowing down for crew change. After I stopped salivating, rolled off another 5 rolls, and was late to work. Too bad, so sad.

4 axle U boats abound at Birmingham during my work assignment there in 1987. They were everywhere. Cleaned out more than a few stores' supply of K25 by the time I was done there....

Right place at the right time, as they were hostling units, with the hostlers within moments of coupling up this unit to SD somethings. Good thing my timing was right as I didn't have any bribe m... (more)

Been wanting to join in on the party everyone else up north has been attending, getting these units in the states. So when I see this as the west unit at the Englewood e/f near Tower 68, I knew i... (more)

The bugs are starting to get a little dusty and dirty, but they still make for a good show around Houston.

On the never ending quest to get all the clean burning power around Houston before their time runs out or the paint starts peeling and fading, we have one of the hordes of bugs that call Strang ho... (more)

We had tickets to ride the train, but of course I had to get a roster of the lead unit as they were hostling the power. This was a spectacular trip; I recommend it highly! At night when they tak... (more)

What do you get when you cross a UP SD45 with an SP SD45 and a rebuild program? An SD40M-2. But take off that a/c and move that plate above the air intake over the cab and you would get a pretty... (more)

For Alex R: I had to put down a McD bacon egg & cheese bagel to get the shot. :-)

Traveling back from Colorado and a family vacation over the Christmas holidays, the only shot I got on the day after New Year's was Eleanor next to the ex FWD mainline between Vernon and Electra. ... (more)