A quiet Saturday morning that still has some patchy fog hanging in the air finds a three-person crew performing some switching moves alongside the Blandin paper mill near downtown Grand Rapids, MN... (more)

The Wheeling and Lake Erie, shown here on the AC&Y, has just made a pick up, and is heading back to their train at Spencer, OH.

After waiting for its westbound counterpart to clear the switch, KRR 4080 approaches the town of Ashdown and the diamond with CPKC.

XO2 departs Eagle Bridge following EDRJ.

BNSF 1665 (SD40-2) sits waiting for service at the BNSF engine facility in Denver, Colorado.

BNSF 1653 (SD40-2) runs light through the heavy snow in Golden, Colorado.

The FRA inspection train rounds the curve at Hypoluxo North on its way down to Miami. This year, the agency sent DOTX 216, a former Amtrak Metroliner car originally built by Budd for the Penn Cent... (more)

LIRC veteran units pair up to lead a southbound ballast train to its yard in Jeffersonville. LIRC 3001 was the former UP 3155 while the 3002 began as SP 8855.

The Oneida & Western "Green Train" passes through Atlanta with four matching SD40-2's built to L&N specs. Photo by Richard Thomason.

The annual or so FRA inspection car rolls into Bunnell

The Greatness of Essex, Montana. Two helper sets idling away waiting for their next job. Then some local power with white face BN 2889 in the background.

Intermodal switchers working the BNSF ramps.

On a bleak winter-like day, an empty coal train off the MKT heads east on the former Frisco main line after skirting Frisco’s abandoned Rosedale Yard, and is now approaching the Katy’s Glen Pa... (more)

Union Pacific SD40-2 1592 (marked as a "D40-2" on the cab) sits in the snow at Hoffman Yard, awaiting its next call to duty. Built by EMD in December 1979 as Union Pacific 3645. (Saint... (more)

At the front gate of Bristol Yard, a idling locomotive is on display long hood forward style for this picture perfect setup. Also, the exact tracks the loco is setting on, happens to be the old tr... (more)