Macon-Birmingham manifest 377 passes the spring switch indicator signal on the approach to Howard siding.

I025 passes an ACL era concrete whistle post while cruising south on the Fitzgerald Sub.

Q541 swings around the Manchester Sub without stopping for a crew change, as it was relieved north of town at Persico. Racks in the foreground are Q64510 who'd also be in a holding pattern due to... (more)

An Eastern Bloc era tram remains in operation, crossing over a baroque bridge in downtown Budapest. I was amazed by the beautiful architecture and accessibility of the city.

I can smell the colors, Outside on my lawn. The moist green organic, That my feet tread upon. --The 'Glow Worm' produces some olfactory hues, smoking it up on a Charlotte-Atlanta intermodal.

The Southern RR Heritage Unit passes the Tannery Row Office Complex, a former leather tannery. 8099 was damaged less than 3 months later when it hit a rock slide in Pittsburgh while leading inter... (more)

It's nice when the sun does you a solid and highlights the overtly orange nose of a BNSF motor, against a shadowy, muted background.

"Usually you have to pay double for that kind of action, Cotton." -Pepper Brooks

Stillfire Brewing is great, with a playground, live music, 1-2 food trucks and 20+ house brews/seltzers on tap. Plus, an optimal location, as can be seen by their silo behind this hot intermodal.

Unfortunately no helpers today, but M336 originated in Neenah rather than Fond Du Lac and had 156 cars on the drawhead.

A Tier 4 EMD leads Q582 up the Western & Atlantic RR Mainline.

Not quite the GTW of my youth, but a pair of Trunk 38's pulling 13 loads of paper for Quad Graphics in Lomira, WI sure did sound like old times.

A sign of things to come, a CP Bensenville, IL-Tracy, MN freight 471, led by KCS power, diverges onto the old DM&E for the trip to Tracy, where it will hand off to the RCPE.

ECOtastic. La Crosse-St Paul road local H19 is large and in charge, with 107/51, 18367 tons, 8364’. Counterpart H20-02, with a single motor, is in the hole for this monster wayfreight.

A third section of the Cicero-South Seattle priority intermodal splits the bluffs and backwaters of the Mississippi River as it flies west.