Iowa Northern's North Job passes a small grain elevator.

Someone really likes the Northern Pacific.

Northbound GNRR freight passes the beautfully restored station in downtown Holly Springs.

NS 238 kicks up some leaves as it takes the approach diverging signal at Lula. #153-29 is holding the main and will have to wait for 118 before heading into Gainesville.

Alabama & Gulf Coast Job 140 switches their yard with the inbound road power, a pair of ex-BNSF C44-9W's. Perhaps its the novelty, but I think the orange & black paint looks good on a clean GE.

The GNRR Tate to Elizabeth freight is dwarfed by the old Canton Textile Mills Plant #1, which is now re-purposed as an industrial park for multiple businesses.

The Iowa Traction crosses 19th St. with loaded soybean hoppers from the AGP plant. The Westinghouse traction motors were getting a workout pulling the steep hill out of the plant.

A BNSF train of steamship boxes is almost done with its journey from Logistics Park in Joliet, IL to Long Beach. A quick jaunt down the Alameda Corridor and the containers will be loaded on a shi... (more)

The Iowa Traction disrupts the morning commute of Mason City to bring six scrap gons into town for interchange to the IC&E. IATR 60 was built in 1917 and I suspect it is hauling scrap from things... (more)

With a KCS Retro-Belle in the lead, 220 shoves his Atlantas into Rail-Highway #6 for de-ramping. Meanwhile, Yard Job GA45 with an MP15 grabs empty repo containers off 210-19 from Miami and will s... (more)

The only turbo-charged unit on the roster, a ex-Great Northern GP20 leads four normally aspirated motors and 32 CSX hoppers of corn. Due to the grades, 65 car grain trains are split in half for t... (more)

A nice birthday present, the Training First Responders unit and train roll past the Southeastern Railway Museum trackage in Duluth.

The beginning of the line for 85 cars of quartzite aggregate & rip-rap. Glad the state of South Dakota had the foresight to purchase this line out of the Milwaukee Road bankruptcy.

Exposed just over 10 years ago, it's interesting to see the things that have changed. The Southern RR signals replaced, Roadrailers gone from the Southeast and 'real' Conrail paint. Even the pri... (more)

My office was being recarpeted, so I was able to get out early and catch this gem passing a 736-08 coal train under the Atlanta skyline. Anything with standard cabs is good, but a horsehead and a... (more)