One of the newly painted BNSF TEBC6 yard slug sets rests at East Thomas as these unique locomotives are usually only seen in yard service. The rear unit is built on an SD9 frame while the mother ... (more)

The remote control units of 202 work on a string of cars while in the background a BNSF Gevo and visiting Canadian Pacific unit sit tied up to an empty rail train.

A very fast and hot NS 230 has just passed Control Point Bunch as it speeds north and meets the Caterpillar loaded train of NS 055<... (more)

Coming into the yard on track 63, the every other day aggregate train from the Parkdale quarry begins to slow as it comes to a stop. Meanwhile a long line of empty mill gondolas stored on track 5... (more)

Sitting on hump track #3 is a familiar face from the Southeast, CSXT 754, who is the rear most DPU on a loaded coal train. This unit coal load is awaiting a new crew to take it just few miles from... (more)

Speed Lettering
After being purchased by the Rio Grande in 1988, the newly combined Rio Grande and Southern Pacific railroads retained the name of Southern Pacific but revamped the log... (more)

Just like the days of old, the Alamosa to Walsenburg local know as train 162 in the Rio Grande era patiently waits at the entrance to the Trinchera Ranch with its stylish SD90/43MACS on the point ... (more)

A pair of BNSF's TEBC6 wait for work in the massive flat switching yard of East Thomas. Today they are found in the newest BNSF pain... (more)

A little off the top
When brand new rail is connected to an existing one there is going to be the problem of matching the top of the rail heads to form a smooth running surface. Since... (more)

The missing link
Named the “Crescent Cab”, these wide nose cabs were developed with crew safety in mind and built for the SD60E rebuild program began by NS in 2010. The Cro-Magno... (more)

Shiny Eagle
Looking just as elegant as the day it rolled out of the Edward G. Budd Company manufacturing plant, the Missouri Pacific Planetarium Dome Coach 892 is back in its origina... (more)

138 years after the invention of the Janney coupler, two updated versions of its revolutionary design continue to keep cars connected and enhance the safety of railroading by preventing accidental... (more)

With an empty hopper train out of the way, the Royal Gorge train makes its way back to the Climate Capital of Colorado, but first will pass underneath the world's tallest suspension bridge.

A surprise sight is seen at Avondale today as the SLRG 115 is tied down in one of the yard tracks of the former Santa Fe mainline with an AAR test car. The train would later end up in Pueblo yard... (more)

Fast Freight
Racing along the Western Railway of Alabama mainline and into Auburn at a cool 45MPH, this loaded tank car and the extended drawbar coupler of a boxcar roll past the blurr... (more)