NS auto train 145, rerouted due to a derailment, slams by NS coal train 431 at Granite City, IL. 145 was only 8 cars long tonight, and I almost got both the head end and EOT in the same exposure. ... (more)

The Zephyr and the horse. A standard cab Dash 9 leads a westbound (southbound at this point) freight through the Amtrak Station and into the yard at Galesburg. Third out in the consist is a... (more)

Two of Norfolk Southern's handsome F units spend the day basking in the sun at the Monticello Railway Museum. Though only on display during their visit, the pair looked great surrounded by the oth... (more)

Arkansas and Missouri Alco C420s are almost to the Missouri state line as they roll downgrade into Gateway, AR.

Clean and Smokey. A pair of Canadian National SD60s fresh out of the Centralia paint booth throttle up a short manifest freight after meeting a northbound manifest at Old Monroe.

BNSF H GALMAD3 23A nears its destination of TRRA's Madison Yard behind a crazy group of locomotives. NREX 5952, a former UP SD60, heads up the consist with UP C40-8 #9300, CP AC4400CW #9547, BNSF ... (more)

The engineer on NS' OCS has the throttle on his vintage set of A-B-A F9s in a high notch as he pulls NS varnish out of the Mississippi River Valley and away from the St. Louis area.

In the perfect shortline scene, all three of Terry Respondek's freshly painted, Illinois Terminal inspired geeps ply the Squaw Creek Southern's jointed rail in the rolling hills of southern Indian... (more)

A nice set of foreign power, including a CSX C40-8 and a CN Dash 9, lead the North Little Rock to Alton and Southern manifest up the UP's Chester Subdivision. The Mississippi River bluffs in and a... (more)

Two UP SD9043MACs bracket a GE C40-8W on a North Platte bound freight. The less than colorful hills in the background highlight the somewhat bland fall we've had this year.

To see an ex-Burlington Northern SD40-2 on any UP train is good, but to see an ex-BN SD40-2 trailing the Mopac heritage unit is even better! This fabulous blue and green combo has been together fo... (more)

"Let's get this party started." Those were the words uttered rather dryly by the crew of QNPINP as their 8,300 horsepower worth of diesel locomotive leaned into the rear of a Meremac coal l... (more)

A BNSF coal train crosses over the Cuivre River on an old steel bridge. The road that crosses the bridge to the left used to be the main road until the new Highway 79 was built outside of town. No... (more)

NS run through power accelerates an auto train from a stop at Pacific.

Golden light glints off of NKP 765 as it watches the sun dip below of the horizon, signaling the end to a perfect day of steam excursions on the NS and a successful 68th birthday. Taken on NS prop... (more)