The sun has just risen over another beautiful autumn day in central PA and mist still hangs above the river as NS 2730 East cruises through Horningford. A four-track signal bridge once stood here ... (more)

An autumn morning is embellished with southbound CSX 521 passing the stately B&O era cantilever - one of several remaining CPLs on the Toledo Sub. We'll never again see such attention to aesthetic... (more)

Westbound coal traffic, that has contributed to extension of capacity in the area, crosses Greenhorn Trestle on a September morning. The three ACs on the point are accompanied by four mid-train an... (more)

There is nothing quite like the sound of a big set of ACes leaning into tonnage on Mullan Pass. Four of them snarl across Greenhorn Trestle in the middle of BNSF 5771 West.

Brigham Young once said "This is the place". Insofar as locations along the RR - Windy Point ranks among mine. It's a lovely September day in Montana and traffic has been fairly steady. ... (more)

NS 2635 rolls out the old Broadway and beneath the signals at MP 211, near Barree, PA, on a late October afternoon.

A train off the Sioux City Sub waits at the Ashland depot, that was still an open office with operator at the time. On the Creston Sub a pair of classy SD70MACs lead westbound coal empties toward ... (more)

A dreary late fall afternoon is nevertheless made attractive by the railroad activity in Ashland, NE. A trio of SD40-2s and a Dash8 lead a string of coil cars west toward Lincoln and beyond. The t... (more)

A fine October day spent on the mountain west of Altoona was the best of all possible worlds - 72 degrees, breezy and sunny. There was a constant procession of traffic, primarily manifests, as mos... (more)

Santa Fe 908 West is coming out of the sag between Chalender and Williams Jct., nicely accenting the spring afternoon scene on the Arizona Divide. Kodachrome.

A GP60M, GP50, SD452u combination bring a westbound through the sag at Maine, AZ. The locomotives, station sign, signals and code line spoke of an era that was passing all too rapidly.

A 61 car eastbound manifest, led by AT&SF 907, glides downgrade in dynamic as it crosses Cosnino Road between Flagstaff and Darling (Winona). The post merger power consist includes a BN B30-7 B un... (more)

A snow squall is moving down the valley on a chilly and windy late winter day as ATSF 5168 East crosses over at Laguna, NM with an SD45, a couple Kodachromes and an NS unit trailing.

Biting off a tip of Colorado on its way across Nebraska, CNW 8629 leads soda ash empties for Green River, WY past Julesburg, CO while the Sterling Local shuffles cars by the elevator.

The Santa Fe that we knew and loved was as yet resplendent in the spring of '97. With its Super Fleet power, impeccable right of way and classic cantilever mounted signals, it was Santa Fe, All th... (more)