First Views

Wearing a coat of paint that is literally hours old, New York, Susquehanna & Western F45 6370 leads an inspection trip west across the Ramapo River in Oakland, New Jers... (more)

NS 65M sits tied down in Norfolk Southern's North Winston Yard awaiting a fresh crew to take the train up the "Pumpkin Vine" to Roanoke. In the lead are two of Electro-Motive/Progress Rail SD70ACe... (more)

Excess power returning to the coal fields (or the shop at South Morrill) is westbound on the 4 track mainline at Hershey, NE, shortly after departing North Platte.

As the BN started getting DP-AC power, they started messing around with DP-ing heavy units trains across their network. Late in 1995 they started testing stuff out on their taconite trains out of ... (more)

BNSF 9297 wearing the experimental BNSF Heritage paint scheme on its first run westbound at Lisle Illinois.

KCS 2853 a former GP40-2 now GP40-3 comes through Downtown Shreveport on this local with wide arrangement of power

With 34 loads of scrap for the steel mill, A pair of Wheeling & Lake Erie units cross over Big Creek as they head east.

Just after a hard rainfall, Q316-05 heads west to Grafton through the streets of St. Mary's, WV with two EMD Tier 4 demonstrators on the point.

An eastbound BNSF train on the MRL is drowning down grade from the Continental Divide at Blossburg on Mullan Pass. The train is seen here after just crossing over Greenhorn Trestle just down from ... (more)

The silence is broken by the sound of T08's horn as a trio of GP20C-ECO's and a GP38-2 head through Claremount with a hefty train in tow.

Led by a former Amtrak SDP40F converted to a SDF40-2, the daily transfer between the Santa Fe's Corwith Yard and the IHB's Blue Island Yard after a classic Chicago snowstorm. Tom Golden photo.

266 040-5 is EMD JT42CWR 20038561-3,sold to BRLL - Beacon Rail Leasing 561-3, hired to RRF - Rotterdam Rail Feeding,Registration NVR-Number 92 80 1266 040-5 D-BRLL

UP 8377 leading the Dallas (DIT), TX to Long Beach (ICTF), CA intermodal up the 1.65% grade out of Benson, AZ

P&W timetable West but truly Northbound loaded coke rounds 'Hell Bent Curve' crossing a 1903 built Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge. Approximately MilePost 11.5 on AVR's P&W sub. This train is a... (more)