A pair of former ATSF B40-8Ws, one still in Santa Fe Warbonnet paint, ease their local train onto the Smithboro siding for a meet with a southbound coal train. Even though their duties have been r... (more)

The Virginian heritage unit rolls across lonely Steppig Road in rural Illinois on its journey south to St. James, LA.

Two UP SD70Ms sandwich a KCS Southern Belle on KMNOA as it powers back up to track speed. The colorful engines and containers contrast the drab, brown tones of the Southern Illinois farmland quite... (more)

Respondek Railroad Corporation's IT inspired SD40-2 switches cars bound for on line industry Abengoa Bioenergy.

Norfolk Southern's Central of Georgia (CofG) heritage unit throttles up with 3780 tons of manifest for Kansas City.

Two BNSF Dash 9s rumble by a private residence with their long string of brand new NS grain hoppers obediently trailing behind.

Amtrak's Missouri River Runner skirts its namesake river as it powers away from its stop at Hermann and passes beneath the German town's large courthouse.

A Pine Bluff, Arkansas, bound manifest freight rolls southward through the southern Illinois farmland along the Chester Subdivision.

A northbound UP freight wanders northbound at a leisurely pace as it prepares to hold south of ICG in Columbia, IL, for traffic further north to clear. The previously dull cloud cover is beginning... (more)

Two big EMD motors lead a Union Pacific manifest southbound along the snowy bluffs of the Mississippi River valley.

The corn crop is at its infancy as the Monongahela heritage unit waits at the south end of the siding at Atwater for the conductor to throw the switch. The train will wait for 2 southbounds before... (more)

A pair of KCS GP40-3s lead transfer YKC106 down UP rails in Kansas City's West Bottoms district.

With a heavy snow storm well under way, a Dash 9 and a Dash 8 from BNSF and CSX, respectively, pull an empty unit gondola train upgrade through Kirkwood, MO. This move originated in Avard, OK, whe... (more)

Pizza Time. BNSF 6202 leads ore loads past the local eatery Pizza Plus on its journey south. The second unit, a KCS AC4400CW, is not often seen on the Hannibal Sub.

NS D70, a transfer from Voltz Yard to BNSF's Argentine Yard, threads its way through some of the many searchlight signals still guarding the rails around Santa Fe Junction in Kansas City, MO. Powe... (more)