Althought the temp is still easily in the high 80s, it has already cool down significantly as night falls on the Mojave.

A dream come true in Bessemer land. For the past week or so, most of the remaining BLE SD38 fleet has been combining forces to power mainline ore trains. Replaced as the road power of choice a dec... (more)

Note that the city is listed as Winona and not Flagstaff. You can thank me later when you don't waste a half hour looking for this shot in the latter.

A friend working on the Union said the railroad is slower than its been in twenty years and it shows here. Note the rows of laid up hot metal cars and shuttered blast furnace across the river at U... (more)

The day's second train is now just a few miles away from the terminus of its 74 mile long journey, the massive Navajo Generating Station.

Nothing rare here.. two GP15-1s, matching blue SD50s and matching can openner Dash-8s are lead by a, what else, a Dash 9.

Because of its huge popularity, CDoT was forced to buy second hand cars from VRE and lease engines from Amtrak to keep the up with demand. In fine CDoT form, the most powerful engines on the line ... (more)

While the attention was focused on the other end of 955, the AVR didn't dissapoint with three clean and matching GP11s in company colors. The track in the foreground is NS' Pittsbugh Line and the ... (more)