The Watco-owned DR class DR1565 & DR1564 work 3K67 empty grain to Mukinbudin. The train is seen rounding the hills just north of Northam near Frenches having just left Avon Yard.

A CN barn smokes it up as it leads Q191 on the approach to CP Frank.

"Last Time Thru Lincoln Park"

With iron ore train

Uncommon for coal trains in Western Canada, a pair of veteran Dash 8s depart Jasper with train C771 after a crew change. Normally this train would be running with much newer power in the form of A... (more)

Thanks to some mechanical ailment, the tunnel motor leading this westbound lumber drag is putting out a plume of smoke worthy of a steam locomotive. There was once a siding here named Jerome.

An Illinois Central Deathstar SD40-3 and two DMIR tunnel motors let out a puff of smoke as they haul a heavy train of taconite pellets towards Duluth. The train is about to clear the N. Coons cont... (more)

The engineer has gotten a green signal and accelerates east on Track 2 of the Jeff City Sub.

An extra section of Memphis,TN - Atlanta,GA train 22N running as I2N descends the nearly 2% grade down Braswell Mountain behind solo NS C44-9W #9412. Norfolk Southern went on a tree clearing blitz... (more)

After waiting for another westbound ahead to clear the block at Jasper East, U743's train resumes its trip westward passing through English.

During a dreary Spring evening on an obscure branch line in rural North Carolina. A battle worn GP38AC coughs up a cloud of exhaust as if the engineer gave it a quick kick in its sides with spurs.... (more)

Dubbed the "Scrap Metal Express" by the crew to the dispatcher, CP freight #555 departs East Binghamton Yard with a freshly outshopped SD40-2 leading seven tired MLWs. The crew barely ... (more)

CP SD40-2 6028 smokes it up as the welded rail train shoves back out of Wadhams siding to drop more rail along the main line.

The last car passes as Union Pacific’s MDVRO works upgrade through the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon at milepost 23 east of Plainview, Colorado, on September 17, 1999. Four Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 â... (more)

A quartet of Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” haul Union Pacific MDVRO upgrade out of Clay, Colorado, and are about to cross Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing on the afternoon of Septem... (more)