The Galesburg to Northtown manifest heads west under the classic signal bridge at Hoffman with a very unusual consist. It's not everyday you see a Santa Fe geep lead a train, let alone on a road t... (more)

Something I'd never thought I'd see happen in 2023... A Santa Fe GP50 leads the Galesburg, IL to Northtown Yard manifest west on the St. Croix Sub. I thought the power would get pulled long before... (more)

Burlington Northern train 3 hurries westbound through Eola, Illinois, on a sunny December 23, 1988. Tiger-stripe EMD GP50 No. 3124 and a cabless GE B30-7AB unit power the Seattle-bound piggyback t... (more)

BNSF’s Sandpoint local hurries through Algoma on its way to Sandpoint, Idaho, on February 2, 2023. The train is powered by a pair of EMD GP50s, Nos. 3126 and 3121, spliced by EMD GP40M No. 3011.

After a light layer of snow blanketed the Chicagoland area the night before, BNSFs Galesburg to Chicago manifest traverses the Southern Transcon with a former Santa Fe GP50 up front. The blue & ye... (more)

FWWR 2011 heads west after working Proctor.

ex ATSF GP50, BNSF 3194 leads a short two car train on the Aurora Branch on its return trip back to Eola Yard in Aurora.

A TP&W yard crew sorts tank cars in the East Peoria yard.

MC 2010 leads the dinner train southward to North Falmouth, seen here running along the Pocasset River in Pocasset, Bourne, MA just after sunset.

A solid trio of Southern Ry livery, lead by GP50 7067, rolls south with a mixed freight.

A Herzog MOW crew comes out onto main one and will be heading north to complete some track work.

A westbound Union Pacific freight, led by UP SD40-2 3376, waits as it meets an eastbound Union Pacific freight with Chicago & North Western GP50 5091 on the headend, on UP’s busy Kearney Sub. (... (more)

Though the Swamp… The Mississippi Export’s mainline path through the swamps surrounding the Pascagoula River and McInnis Lake in Moss Point, MS is definitely not something one would find on m... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern intermodal train flies through Highlands, Illinois, on April 18, 1987. Leading the train is EMD GP50 Nos. 3107 and 3118, followed by a fuel tender, a GE B30-7A “B... (more)

EAST ORO GRANDE CA Sept 5 1983 — Santa Fe GP50 3816 leads a mixed freight. This unit was built as a Locotrol Master. A close inspection reveals the antenna between the second and third radiator ... (more)