Pair of old dash 9's are working hard to get back up to speed and pull the grade thru West Ethel. The sand train ahead of them had to slow up for a train in emergency. The snow is falling pretty h... (more)

The Sunset Limit has just crossed the Mississippi River outside of New Orleans. The train is only 35" into their 1995 mile trip from New Orleans to Los Angeles. The Mississippi River bridge, ... (more)

I was glad that the local crew in the yard seen we needed more power at the shops after we showed up. So on this Monday morning they brought over the 3 geeps on the right and parked them. That mad... (more)

Lake Pontchartrain is a brackish estuary located in southeastern Louisiana. It covers an area of 630 square miles with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Its roughly 39x24 miles wide and length, a... (more)

The Bonnet Carré Spillway is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley, located in St. Charles Parish, LA. The spillway allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River to flow into ... (more)

A Shreveport to Meridian-NS freight train dips along the hogbacks on the east end of the KCS Meridian Sub. The train is finishing off the last 75 miles into Meridian.

The UP run thru Z-train (IZLCAI) from Los Angles to Atlanta that the KCS handles between Shreveport and Meridian, slowly pulls into the siding at Vicksburg. The train is meeting this massive 12,00... (more)

A 12,000 foot Artesia to Shreveport freight train rumbles thru the small town of Edwards on the Meridian Sub. The job left Jackson with 6 motors (5x1) and over 13,000 tons.

The Vicksburg Turn local rolls across the 1917 built stone arch bridge over the Big Black River. This bridge is located at MP 127.8 on the KCS Meridian Sub. This job is carrying a whopping 114 car... (more)

Humming along around 54mph, this Jackson base local has 13,000 tons of freight from the Vicksburg Southern at Vicksburg well in hand. They pass the small town of Bolton about 15 miles west of Jack... (more)

NS train 345 is bound for New Orleans and to the UP. The train just got done meeting Amtrak's Crescent at Dragon Siding, and now slowly rolls into Hattiesburg and over the Leaf River. The train is... (more)

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. Here we have many chasing the KCS business train that ran from Laredo to KC over a 4 days. The trip was for John Orr, the... (more)

About 7:30am on a cold Super Bowl Sunday morning, a westbound U705 broke a couple rails east and west of Jesup on the CN Dubuque Sub. The signal maintainer came out and found a couple 2 inch break... (more)

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. The KCS goes up around the Quachita Mountains near the Oklahoma/Arkansas Stateline. Here trains go from 500 feet to the s... (more)

The Shreveport to KC freight train lumbers into the siding at Gentry to meet a grain train. The northbound freight is climbing from MP 225 to MP 219 on a 1% grade even thru the restricted speed si... (more)