More fossil hunting between trains finds me down in a creekbed north of Glendo; just happens to be a good spot to catch both directions within a few hours of time

Out of breath and getting dizzy, I managed to get this shot off before having to sit down; I was digging leaf fossils out of that bluff just to the left of the milepost sign, when I heard this guy... (more)

Barely over a month old 9137 and 2 clones have just set up dynamics around the curve and on the approach to CP685 [West Rawlins], where he will cross over to track 3 and spot at the fuel pad for j... (more)

The 7 Tilden job is cutting off it's train and is about to head back to the Tilden mine for another cut. Adjacent to him is the 7 Hill job pumping air in preparation for the downhill run to the d... (more)

After chasing the GB&W 312 to the yard, I run across this guy kicking cars on the east end of the yard. Between the GB&W C424 throttling up after getting the switch and this yard job kicking cars... (more)

A quartet of clean (which in SP's world meant "new") Dash-8s are in charge of one of the trains that regularly got new power. This train is on the Eagle Lake branch; whenever we heard the 'spatch... (more)

Unsure if this is La Grande. At any rate, break in the incoming winter storm just long enough to fire off 4 shots.

Trying to get Big Jacks on the UP side of the river, I see this on the other side and give it a shot.

Sometimes you get off cheap: all it took to get the inbound crew to pull up from behind a cut of grain hoppers and spot the power was a round of onion rings for the crew from the burger joint acro... (more)

I remember being torn between almost liking the new MP yellow scheme and disliking it because it insulted the old UP scheme. I got over it and so did UP.

The daily grind: 1.) start at Bellville in the morning yelling at the clouds to just move ao you could shoot last night's remote cut-outs at the old roundhouse tracks, then 2.) move on to shooting... (more)

The MP ran basically a shuttle for the RS&S/PC&N between Point Comfort and Rockdale using their power, northbound one day, then southbound the next. It was one of the few trains that, as a rule, ... (more)

The SF30Cs were common on grain, potash and sulphur trains, and we tried to get as many as we could while they were in kodachrome colors and reasonably clean. Bellville was where southbounds (rai... (more)

In Chicago for the WGRF, Mike Abalos (may he rest in peace) was right beside me shooting the parade, one train after the other at Western Avenue.

Cruisin' down the main drag at Sidney, effortless at track speed, about to throttle up for the slight uphill run up to and around the Potter bluffs. This was a pretty standard lashup for leaders ... (more)