A westbound coal train slinks through Red Gorge between Radium and Yarmony, Colorado, on November 6, 2012. This remote stretch of canyon can only be reached by foot or river raft on the Colorado R... (more)
Q418 on the Trenton Line
Four units head out of the shop into the yard.
Unique vantage point (and one I've not seen) of the Breaks Gorge, which the Clinchfield engineers utilized for the Elkhorn Extension. Seen here is 66 south grinding upgrade and pass MTY hoppers st... (more)
A CSX AC4400CW Leads Union Pacific Train MASKC westbound on the Jeff City Sub bound for Kansas City. The Train is seen here Rounding the Curve to take it pas the old historic MoPac Train Depot dir... (more)
Crossing empty Hochelaga yard and waiting for clear signal that entering toward Harbor.
Looking thru my slides I certainly shot a handful of trains at Mitchell. Here is another coal load climbing the 3% on a Colorado July Morning. Note the new CTRN hoppers.
The first 1/2 of the grade from Minturn to Red Cliff could go head to head with any of the toughest grades in the USA. From Red Cliff west however there is a clear winner, a long twisting high al... (more)
Coal empties from Superior (WI) head back to the Powder River Basin in moderate snow.
Near the end of the day, some sunlight finally finds its way through the clouds and onto a train at Chelsea, Iowa. An AC4400CW and SD70M work together as distributed power on the end of an eastbo... (more)
Hold on to your tuque as train 292 comes sailing around a curve west of Belgrade on a day when the windchill was in the -30 to -40 range.
Q107 rolls off a bridge on the south side of Kenton.
245 hustles towards Galt on a balmy September Sunday. It was nice to see a bit of EMD flavour trailing the GE's.
SP347 thunders out of the 3% onto the "level" near Pando....
Two ACs haul a quartet of DIT lease units back to their master through a wealthy neighborhood in Brookfield, the houses behind me and to the left cost well over 1 million dollars. With the economy... (more)
