Get 'Em While You Can!: With CP beginning to rebuild and repaint many of the older units again, the original SOO units may disappear quickly. H20 has been running with a matched pair of red... (more)

The brakeman prepares to grab the last car as the engineer shoves to the cut of cars waiting on the main. The Indiana RR GP16 is leased.

Y636 leans precariously as it sits on a somewhat ill maintained peice of track while waiting to shove back into the lumber yard. Canon 350D.

On a stormy summer afternoon, the TC&W Glencoe Turn scoots out of town behind one of their CAT repowered geeps, just before the sky opens up on Minneapolis. The TC&W's former MILW main splits from... (more)

Public relations as train Y-224 is transfered from Respondek to Terminal after Respondek blocked Y-224 for the Terminal. Canon 350D. 28-80mm.

Westbound UP coal drag CJOCD9 27 observes a slow order past the Kirkwood Depot while two other Railpictures.net photographers (N691LF & zone2conductor) stand around chatting.

I didn't realize that Union Pacific had decided to paint their locomotives BROWN . . .

A&M ALCO's in 2022: After a derailment on the Fort Smith bridge in early May stranded 3 for A&M's SD70's, the ALCO C420's were pressed back into road service. Also having disrupted traffic ... (more)

MRS #255 and a T.R.R.A. SW1200 sit outside the engine house late this afternoon.

CP Holiday Train: Stopped in Hastings putting on a show for the locals, the head end of the Holiday Train sits on the historic former MILW lift bridge that spans the Mississippi at Hastings... (more)

Two old DASH 8's sit the evening out at Dupo while high cirrus clouds streak across the sky above.

An EMLX unit pokes it's head out at the old GWWR engine facilities, this yard was almost shut down, however, the agreement with TRRA was too costly and did not work out. . Canon 350D.

A CN SD40-2 visits Dupo, IL. Note the guy in the cab checking me out with binoculars. Train is ZMQDU 23.

After Picking up 2000 ft. of train in Dupo, MPRPB highballs south, crossing the bridge at Fountain doing about 30 MPH for the flashing yellow ahead of him. Canon 350D.

At the end of the day, this UP grain train slips through the long shadows at Kirkwood while drifting slowly down Kirkwood Hill and past the snow covered depot. Canon 350D.