On Friday 10-2-2009 the C&TS ran a moonlight dinner train to Osier using D&RGW 2-8-2 487. After hustling from Colorado Springs I made it to Chama just in time to catch its departure and followed i... (more)

LS&I 2400 sits in front of the Eagle Mills yard office. Soon 2400 and two sisters will depart with a train of empties headed for the loadout on this bitterly cold day. In fact as a Californian th... (more)

In what was a moment of luck the setting sun dipped below the cloud cover and this loaded coal train showed up right on schedule to end a productive day of railfanning.

A UP Operation Life Saver Special ties down for the night in the Phippsburg yard

Alaska Railroad 4007 is the rear DPU on coal train destined for export at Seward, AK. In the background are the Chugach Mountains.

The company work train is about to cross the Parks Highway just about a mile or two south of Hurricane where they will tie up for the night. They train is moving material for the overpass that is ... (more)

The MRONY pulls into the little used siding of Azure on UP's Moffat Subdivision. At the right edge of the photo you can see the train they are to meet the CCSWE a coal empty bound for the North Fo... (more)

An Alaska Cruise Train has stopped at the junction with the Seward Subdivision and will continue North once the conductor lines the switch for the mainline. By the time the summer of 2011 comes ar... (more)

There are more than a few twists and turns between Anchorage and Seward as SD70MAC 4320 turns the corner at MP 68 with a Seward bound freight.

Late on a winters day, 2:21PM, with less than an hour of useable sun 3012 leads three sisters with 7,000' feet of train headed for the barge in Whittier. And after a week on the water will arrive ... (more)

This shot of the 181S may turn out to be the very last export coal train on the Alaska Railroad. With the soft coal market this will be the last train needed to fill the coal ship at Seward. Curre... (more)

I had often looked at this location as a possible photo location but usually I wasn't equipped to wade through the bog to get the shot. Well, that changed last night when a buddy and I waded throu... (more)

While living in Colorado I would often make trips to Utah to catch the final Grande units in action. On one such trip I had a buddy fly in to Salt Lake City and we ventured around Soldier Summit e... (more)

It is May 10th and Spring is in the air. The trees are turning green from a long winter and there are Geese arriving in Alaska. 2014 was a good year for coal unlike 2015 where so far this year onl... (more)

Potash Local arrives Potash with a short train.