The daily Kirk Yard, IN, to Waterloo, IA, manifest train rolls over the not so flat Iowa countryside near MP 235, 40 miles east of Waterloo. The train is an average 6200 feet train today. Today's ... (more)
Style and class will shine through even though the outfit is a little tattered.
A tie train at Dalbow Road near O'Fallon, MO. It had snow of the front, but there was none in our area.
Rolling Meet: I had gotten word that a Z train with 2 Santa Fe SD75M's leading was coming westbound and while I waited to catch them I heard the detector to my west call out 500-some axles ... (more)
BNSF #8241 still sports it Warbonnet paint well as it leads this colorful lash-up WB this late February afternoon.
BNSF 8268 pulls northbound after letting Amtrak's Texas Eagle clear southbound. The solid H2 consist and clean paint of the recently reactivated SD75M show well in the low light of a warm Septem... (more)
They are hard to find, but the SD75's continue to run in the Pacific Northwest.
The SD 75's are back for a little bit, anyway.
An eastbound BNSF stack train passes beneath a classic Santa Fe signal bridge on the Arizona Divide.
Santa Fe shop workers hand polish a pair of SD75Ms in the Light Repair Shop.
With a new, shiny SD75M on the point, an eastbound intermodal train in the hole at Knightsen meets an opposing manifest at dusk.
After dropping some loads at the UPS facility at North Bay, Santa Fe 202 West accelerates as it heads for Richmond and the end of its long journey from Chicago.
At sunset, an eastbound BNSF intermodal hot-shot lights up the rails at Amboy.
By 2004 it was unusual to find DC power on coal trains and even more rare to find a pair of warbonnets.
At sunset, three SD75Ms lead a westbound hotshot through East Antioch.
