With a powerful and nasty looking thunderstorm building off to the southwest, a southbound ETRX (Arkansas Power & Light) loaded coal drag from Caballo Rojo Mine cautiously works its way down BNSF'... (more)

Running under a mess of urban power lines and various poles, a southbound autorack re-position move for Laredo, TX rolls down Union Pacific's Del Rio Subdivision behind a lone Dash 9 on a miserabl... (more)

The roar of struggling locomotives in notch 8 pierce the mid-morning silence as southbound loaded coal drag UP CATJO9 23 muscles up the 1.1% grade known as Logan Hill north Bill, Wyoming. Topped o... (more)

A Canal Street trolley makes a quick stop to pick-up and drop-off passengers at the Carondelet Station on a busy Wednesday night in a city known as the "Big Easy."

Having just been loaded at the Antelope Mine, a southbound loaded UP coal train fights and claws its way up the 1% grade of Logan Hill north of Bill, WY. This train is headed for unloading at the ... (more)

Fresh off the Merchants Bridge, crossing from Missouri to Illinois, an eastbound Saginaw, TX (BNSF) to Fort Wayne, IN high-priority TripleCrown train navigates past the complicated track layout of... (more)

BNSF 1848, a former Burlington Northern SD40-2, brings a cut of cars out of the classification tracks so a switch move can be made. Amazing to think that this unit was built new all the way back i... (more)

On Saturday, September 13th, 2014, the Iowa Interstate Railroad made four round trips between Henry, IL and Chillicothe, IL running a special 8-car passenger excursion for the families, railfans a... (more)

A pair of four-axle BNSF locomotives roll in-between the engine pit tracks (Left) and the inbound receiving/runner tracks (Right) as they head south to pick up Chicago bound mixed freight M-GALCHI... (more)

With the sun having just crested the horizon and a bit of early dawn fog still left in the air, Alton & Southern's Gateway Yard sits quietly under the St. Louis, MO skyline with some rather intere... (more)

Driving the Washington side of the river following quite a fruitful morning on the BNSF, shades of Armour Yellow moving quickly along the adjacent Oregon shoreline caught our attention as Union Pa... (more)

Beginning its assault on Edelstein Hill, westbound intermodal F-KG4LB1 24Z rounds Houlihan's Curve on BNSF's Chillicothe Subdivision with a pretty new looking GEVO leading the way. This is a track... (more)

A northbound empty NORX coal train headed for loading at the Caballo Rojo Mine snakes it way around a curve while climbing a short grade south of Bill, WY. The train is led by an older generation ... (more)

With major track work on BNSF's Ottumwa Sub, both California Zephyr and Southwest Chief passenger train's were forced to detour over the UP on their Geneva Sub. Here we see westbound train number ... (more)

Yates City, population just shy of 660, hardly classifies as a city at all but its quaint, small-town charm is temporary interrupted by the noisy passage of BNSF freight M PEIGAL1 27A on the light... (more)