Concurrent activity. Road power is being turned on the wye, MOW personal are cleaning switches and tracks as a plow extra arrives from Newport Vt.

A Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western coal train arrives at Washburn, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. DMVW EMD SD50F Nos. 5454 and 5418 power the train of DMVX hoppers specially-equipped with cove... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec 9010 West is crossing the trestle at Eastman on a cold and crisp January afternoon.

Santa Fe 5997 East, a pig train out of northern California, grinds slowly past a herd of sheep as shepherds work to maintain control of their flock as the big, noisy machines roar past. Forage is ... (more)

The Iowa Northern Waterloo Switcher has cleared up at the CN interchange so the CN can run a train by them. A loaded ethanol train rolls into Waterloo at Jaxton and by the IANR. The IANR will come... (more)

After a rare 50 mile travel and nearly six hours of track time to plow snow we clear at Wagaming for one. And what a train, CN C40-8M 2415, CN SD60 5476, and CN C40-8 2023 provide the power. Soon ... (more)

Toronto-Halifax Canadian National 120 rumbles high above the frozen Nicolet River at St-Léonard

BC Rail (formerly British Columbia Railway) General Electric C40-8Mu Nos. 4622 and 4601 bracket the West Coast Railway Association’s Canadian Pacific GMD FP7 No. 4069 in the BCR locomotive facil... (more)

Santa Fe 5906 waits for clearance from the dispatcher to tie on to a stalled freight and help it eastbound up Cajon Pass.

Central Maine & Quebec Job 1 has just arrived from Maine as it works at the north end of Farnham Yard. A friend was shooting from the ground level on that cold morning.

Late in the day on December 20, 1990, Santa Fe cowls head west through snow at the edge of the town of Tehachapi. The snow will stick around for about two weeks, since a good portion of California... (more)

Santa Fe 5967 winds through the curves at the east end of Rowan as it roars eastward up the heavy grade at Keene, CA. Note the 3-masted signal at left, which likely gives the engineer a heads-up a... (more)

Running south on the CN Missabe sub back to the yard at Proctor with a string of empty DMIR Difco side dumps that were used to deliver limestone to the U.S. Steel Minntac plant at Mountain Iron, M... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec 9014 West breaks the morning silence as it is approaching Brookport. Note the snow making guns in action at Ski Bromont in the background.