A westbound freight zig-zags along the shelf above the Colorado River a couple miles west of HSS.

Rolling through The Amazing Karnack, TX a westbound Kansas City Southern Railway train is handling merchandise traffic toward the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex area on a fine spring day.

Brain Box- Not every day you pull up behind a Caboose. Even in 96, only a select few Soo jobs used them. Shot off the nose of my WC SD45, this "Brain Box" guards the rear of a Soo pig transfer hea... (more)

Just days into their lease to the Utah Railway, four MPI rebuilt SD45/40's claw through an S-curve and onto the 2.4% grade up the Price River Canyon and Soldier Summit at Castle Gate, a few miles ... (more)

Plenty O' Power waiting for its next assignment at Burlington Northern's Interbay Roundhouse locomotive facility. There are still numerous SD45's on the roster at this date and they would continu... (more)

A east bound train of manifest loadings, passing over the Glorieta turn out at Dalies.

Running along the South River; 9 months earlier, this area was underwater due to flooding when the remnants of Hurricane Camille passed through Central Virginia

Portland to Birmingham freight rolls along the west bank of the Mississippi just south of downtown Cape.

Winding through freshly cut fields of grain, an eastbound train out of Coulee City is casting long shadows on the plain signaling that the day is coming to a close. On track restricted to 10mph fo... (more)

Westbound departs Green River with 4 WP U30Bs led by a UP SD45

While the tractors are idled for the day, the Eastern Washington Gateway pushes on to get the train to Cheney before the hours of service law catches the one-man crew. In an irony of economics, th... (more)

Having traveled 108 miles from Cheney over a two-day period, the crew has finally reached the end of the line at Coulee City with 55 cars to spot. They will leave the power here for the night and ... (more)

Pulling out of Davenport after a 45-minute stop to add some lube oil and fine-tune the SD45, it’s 42 miles to Cheney and the BNSF interchange to finish a long day. It’s not easy being a short line... (more)

Shortline railroading at its best….85lb rail meandering through the landscape, 40+ year old power, a one-man crew, 11 loads and 108 miles to the interchange. Rail was laid between Cheney To Coulee... (more)

DMVW 7510 leads grain loads from Fullerton, ND, eastward over the former Soo Line east of Oakes, ND.