The south freight is a couple of miles out of Wasilla on a beautiful morning. During this time frame 2008 the Alaska Railroad ran two freights each direction 4 days a week and one in each directio... (more)

Alaska RR northbound empty coal train with freight on head end picked up both in Seward and Portage along the Turnagain Arm near Rainbow

There’s quite a bit to see in this shot taken by my good friend Ken Marsh. This is northbound Clinchfield train 95, a through scheduled run from Spartanburg to Elkhorn City, KY—the length of t... (more)

Intermodal and grain train #50.206 of FEPASA railway, locomotive EMD SD40-2 former BNSF, now working in Chile with a very particular color scheme, drag a freight train and cross the bridge over th... (more)

Westbound gravel load Birchwood

I wasn't expecting to see this old friend pop out around the curve today. I knew a few of the remaining SD80MACs on CSXT were showing up occasionally in freight service in and out of Selkirk but... (more)

WAMX (Birmingham Terminal Railway) GP38-2 3876, Ex BSRR nee EJ&E leads a loaded ore train from BNSF's East Thomas Yard through Ensley, Alabama with a mixed assortment of GP38-2s trailing.

An ex ATSF C40-8W leads a eastbound CN manifest towards Port Huron.

A "bluebird" with an SD45 carbody leads the very late Atlanta to Hamlet slop freight with only a couple hours before the crew laws out.

A quartet of grimy 18Es drag a load of coal empties into Arbor on the Witbank coalfields. The tail of the train can be seen stretching away on the left

In 2008 the Alaska Railroad was still using cabooses on the rear of the daily gravel trains, as seen here as the AS&G gravel train rolls off the Palmer Branch and onto the mainline at Matanuska Ju... (more)

CSX slop freight Q617 (Atlanta,GA - New Orleans,LA) meanders through a couple curves with a SD40-2/SD70ACe duo

On the Alaska Railroad it is relatively rare to capture two non passenger trains making a meet as most run under the cover of darkness or if during the summer are in those generally not accessible... (more)

A long drag freight bound for Barstow, CA sports no home road power on the head end as a CREX ES44AC and 2 UP units have the honors today, as they pass the Parsley Road Grade Crossing near the Ama... (more)