The 193/316 have plied these rails intermittently for their entire lives. Here they are beginning their descent into the middle of the city down the infamous Lemon Drop Hill, dynamics howling to k... (more)

Fresh wheels line up nicely as an oddball engine waits its call to duty...

Identical twins #400 and #401 began their lives out west, beating the mountains that caused other engines to overheat. They came to Minnesota and conquered the snow wearing the classy maroon of th... (more)

This sign has been up before the locomotive engineers parents even met each other. Does that mean the engineer is young, or the sign is old?

DPU screams across the bridge, with its fading orange actually matching the fall colors!

While I found the CBRW to be an interesting railroad, there isn't much to be had in the way of scenery. Luckily the power more than makes up for it. While the #12 has a fascinating history, coming... (more)

Former Milwaukee Road GP9's moving cars on basically the only surviving part of the Milwaukee Roads Pacific Coast extension...Such a cool railroad... will need to make time to come back here again... (more)

Engineer Lohrbach runs the engine like he stole it. I guess you could call him a bandit! Ha Ha.

GHOST TRAIN! After a derailment at LP forced the closure of the SB IR Sub from Waldo to Two Harbors, empties get rolling again through a nice little spot I discovered. Little did I know a short 3... (more)

Engineer Lohrbach changes ends as a classic pair of Soo Line geeps rest on fairly scary track.

If you look closely at the foreground, you will see what looks likes marks of old tracks that used to be on this bridge, possibly a switch led into Hallet Dock? Someone older than me will have to ... (more)

While the former NP mainline through Montana has many scenic spots, none is more overlooked, or undershot than the Billings/Huntley area. Due in large part to inaccessibility, but also for a lack ... (more)

I guess its too much to hope for nice units on a milestone train for the CP... But the power is fine by me! The widest load ever handled out of Port Terminal is about 2 hours into their journey. I... (more)

Of course they had the wrong leader! Spirit Mountain is the signature Missabe shot, and maybe because of that I have not spent much time here. It is the perfect place, however, to show off some ni... (more)

FIN! The last regularly scheduled movement, and possibly last of any kind over this street running in Brainerd. The mill shut down and the local is seen here after retrieving two boxcars of scrap ... (more)