Great Western's eastbound run from Shaunavon to Assiniboia passes through the vast prairie, the only other bisection being the well maintained grid roads.

Three C39-8's lead NS train 211 into Atlanta off the Piedmont Division.

The Chamblee Yard job pulls out of NS's Inman Yard in Atlanta, GA.

The eastbound Empire Builder crosses the infamous Two Medicine Creek Bridge, running ahead of SP 4449.

Pickens U18B #9503 sits in Gluck, SC after a day of working.

Only 3 miles out of Cadiz, ATSF 3751 sets off with the Grand Canyon Limited into a desert sunset at a blistering 15 MPH. It would be a long night for the train crew and their passengers on the sl... (more)

Another loaded BNSF coal train climbs Crawford Hill as seen from one of the overlooks at the Ponderosa Ranch.

The Grand Canyon Limited speeds up Ash Hill on the Transcon on its return to LA.

UP 844 has been spotted for the night and locomotive servicing will soon commence as a swarm of railfans and the general public walk around this magnificent engine.

NNRY #93 passes the historic coal tipple at the East Ely yard. Photo taken at the Nevada Northern Winter Steam Spectacular.

EMDX 1212 and the BNSF test train idle at dusk at remote Timpas, CO, shutting down after a long day of work on the lightly used Raton Sub to make way for Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief.

UP 8813 East crosses a small canyon on its way to the next crew change at Del Rio, TX as it traverses barren west Texas. The bridge in the foreground is the old US 90 crossing.

The Alamo Gulf Coast Railroad sits idle over the weekend at the quarry in Beckmann, TX, just outside of San Antonio, TX.

CSX Q173 speeds southbound through the middle of Ashland, VA.

A long way from the mainlines of the Great Northern, this old soldier continues to earn its keep switching frac sand, crude oil, pipe, and other products of the Eagle Ford Oil Shale formation in s... (more)