Houston is one of the least likely places for cars to roll out of sidings, but the FRA requires derails and rules are rules. Here, 84 cars of differing diameter pipe off the CSX at Salem, IL are ... (more)

Port 151 is running East on the West Main with the Houston skyline above the train.

Train Port 141 heads north on UP's Strang Subdivision, crossing Bray's Bayou on it's was to PTRA North Yard.

Not what I picture when I think of Houston, a Pine Bluff, AR to Baytown, TX manifest creeps along the beginning of 49 miles of yard limits that is the Baytown Sub.

Running 1x1; an extra Des Moines, IA to Englewood Yard freight comes off the Navasota Sub onto the Palestine Sub for the remainder on the trip into Houston.

A re-crewed MLIEW 19 departs the south siding at West Echo, following the Sunset Limited. A dogged MLIEWX 18 is in the north siding at it will be some time before it moves. Such is norm on UP an... (more)

Union Pacific still dates the Sunset Limited as if it was originating in Florida, however Amtrak #1 of the 20th is just entering Texas, being delayed by MOW and having to hand throw the switch at ... (more)

According to a friend, the southward absolute signals at Frenchmen Street are the last Southern riveted steel cantilever signal west of Birmingham and I believe it. Running as AV01 on NS, BNSF cr... (more)

QLIGNC 18 is stretched out over the magnificent Huey P. Long Bridge. Running with yard crew YAV26 19, this is the third Livonia, LA to CSX Gentilly Yard manifest of the day. Due to CSX no longer... (more)

The Crescent exits the New Orleans Terminal Back Belt Line and takes the wye onto the N.O.&N.E. District to Meridian, MS.

A New Orleans Public Belt job passes through one of the flood walls lining the "Industrial Canal" on the east side of town.

Luck was with me on the first morning of my Thanksgiving Vacation. The mostly cloudy weather forecast was completely wrong and New Orleans-Linwood 172 was the first of two NS trains fleeted out o... (more)

My first photograph in exactly a month, everything came together on this opportunity. The 7337 was trailing out of Sheffield, but the lead unit was removed at Chattanooga and when I checked on th... (more)

The Hugo Job passes Kasota Ponds on it's way north. 316 is one of only two operating RS-27s, both on the Commercial... not looking much different from it's birth, as GB&W 316.

This is as scenic as it gets in Dilworth, MN; where an empty train of system coal hoppers is pulling down to change crews, while passing intermodal Q SPOCHC1 11 speeding away with a fresh crew.