Westbound New York to LA Q-Train rolls thru the east end of Chillicothe. The bridge in the background is the bridge over the Illinois River. In a couple miles the train will fight Edelstein Hill t... (more)

The late day sun glints off an eastbound manifest as is works its way down Sand Patch grade at Foley.

Along the banks of the New River, hues of yellow light up the foliage as autumn settles in the New River Valley. A westbound stack train rounds the bend Plum Creek, passing the classic N&W CPL th... (more)

CP 101 heads across the Pic River with whats left of the fall colours hanging onto the leaves

Haven't been out much lately, summertime is so busy, and it's too hot! A business trip yielded me 1 train at sunset last weekend. Here one of UP's new Tier 4 SD70's is a DP unit on a westbound hop... (more)

Only about 10 minutes from sunset, this coal train bound for Sheboygan, WI, rolls off east towards the next crew change at Clinton. The train has just passed thru Calamus in eastern Iowa and is ab... (more)

A loaded grain train out of Yetter bound for Helvetia, LA, for unloading passes thru Independence. Odd ball KCS unit is helping the cause out today. We don't see alot of KCS power in Iowa on the C... (more)

Finally made it out to Verona for some afternoon shots of the classic Santa Fe cantilever signals still protecting this crossover at MP 70.8. The signal gang is working in the area and changes are... (more)

A 10 car passenger special with a new Tier 4 SD70Ace and a freshly repainted ES44AC on the point rolls through this small northeastern Kansas town on its way to St. Louis.

A GE Tier 4 demo and AC6000 demo, as well as an old EEC boxcar and caboose, sit in the GE Transportation yard.

Locomotives:
GECX 2035 ET44AH
GECX 6002 AC60CW

The CSX southbound freight with tier 4 power exits the 2nd of the twin tunnels at Hill Station and starts the steady climb upgrade on a hot October day.Its great to have traffic traversing the Cli... (more)

BNSF ET44C4 3904 leads an Alliance, TX - Los Angeles, CA stack train out of Crozier Canyon, dropping into Valentine, AZ.

UP 2613 is on the rear of an eastbound ballast train.

SCAX 907, one of the only F125's cleared to be operating on the mainline, makes the first daylight appearance for its unit's class on the company's Ventura County Line (Ventura Subdivision) as it ... (more)

Two pre-production tier 4 demo units and one CN tier 4 sit on the GE interchange track in Erie, PA.

Locomotives:
GECX 2031 ET44AC
CN 3038 ET44AC
GECX 2032 ET44AC