The conductor looks on, as IC 9637 crosses Bridge Street, and heads light to pick up one lumber car from CSI.

I am sometimes amazed that these things stay on the rails. UP 1478 eases over some rough track through downtown Jefferson on their way to pick up a refrigerated box car at the end of the line. Thi... (more)

AZER 4010 is about to lead a train underneath the Highway 191 bridge.

BNSF 2852 leads the BNSF Rochelle local west on track one.

CN/GTW 5935 leads an eastbound through Scales Mound . Notice the sign to the right of the train. There are signs like this on the Iowa Division that have the old CCP herald on them. It is said the... (more)

WSOR's two oddball locomotives lead the T006 through Edgerton on a warm July morning. 4219 is the only engine to have a red goose, and headlight on the nose. 4223 is the only SD45 body to sport WS... (more)

BN 6398, a pleasent supprise leads todays M338 on the CN. Second unit is an IC GP40.

GTW 5949 is on the point of CN train M33891-28, on April 28th, 2006. The cars toward the end of the train (left side of photo) are curving down toward West Jct.

The storage train nicely fills out the South Dakota landscape as it ambles East towards Presho. In less than a quarter mile, the crew will chop the train off and run light to Presho. The purpose o... (more)

WSOR 4051 leads the L863 past MP 184 on the former route of the CNW 400. The WSOR Reedsburg Sub was once a busy double track mainline, and is now only a shadow of it's former self. If I recall cor... (more)

An ex KCS is at the helm of train M338 on Oct. 15 2005 as the conductor walks towards the Freeport CN yard office

After waiting for MOW to make some track repairs, the Ringneck & Western crew has tied on to the long string of former BN coal hoppers that have been in storage for years.

With their work in the Rockford area all finished, UP 5245 and crew are well on their way back to Belvidere.

A bunch of Freeport McMoRan's weird GPs haul a train up the grade the seems too steep to be real.

The T008 crew will still has a long 60 miles left until they reach Madison, as the last resemblance of daylight quickly fades away.