BNSF9741 is not quite on the 2.2% but you would not know it by the sound of 8 EMD's in RUN 8. The coal train is bound for Oregon's Boardman Power Plant.

A colorful array of EMD power, including an MP15T switcher, spices up the usually drab, all blue lash up of Q582-09 on this beautiful late summer day.

Union Pacific's freight MRONY approaches Blue Mountain grade crossing west of Clay, Colorado, on April 23, 2001. Crisp snow-covered mountains at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon provide a wintery ba... (more)

Look, Listen, Live! This photo brings to mind the Operation Lifesaver slogan, as UP 4582 slams through a gated crossing just west of Salina, Kansas. The crew is just beginning their 240+ mile run ... (more)

A detouring MRVPT has a meet with the ORMIS as it approaches the American River Bridge in Sacramento

UP 3934 & 6829 lead a westbound manifest. The four trailing locomotives are along for the ride.

An Elkhart to Fort Wayne, IN manifest makes the hard right turn off the Chicago Line and into some tight quarters on the north side of the city of Goshen as they begin their trip down the Marion B... (more)

Military equipment from Oxnard, CA to Herlong, NV cross the spectacular Clio trestle, deep in the Feather River Canyon.

On a warm Florida morning, CSX O842 rolls through Mulberry, passing by the Mosaic Facility. CSXT 4685 is the "Spirit of Mulberry" as well as one of the last three SD70Ms to be in the YN2 paint s... (more)

UP7183 is the second westbound coal load in an hour. Shoving hard in the middle of this load is a manned 3 unit helper with UP4799 in the consist.

Two flagged UP SD70Ms, the lead one being one of the first three UP units (4526-4528) to wear the American flag and "Building America" slogan, lead NS train W25 westbound.

The dispatcher in Omaha has wisely stuck and eastbound manifest train into the siding at Brazos, clearing and cutting the road crossing to allow a hotshot eastbound Z train to fly by en route to F... (more)

A UP eastbound empty ballast train takes the sweeping curve, about cross the Deschutes River,at MP 99 west of Biggs,OR on October 24, 2012.