NS train 345 is bound for New Orleans and to the UP. The train just got done meeting Amtrak's Crescent at Dragon Siding, and now slowly rolls into Hattiesburg and over the Leaf River. The train is... (more)

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. Here we have many chasing the KCS business train that ran from Laredo to KC over a 4 days. The trip was for John Orr, the... (more)

About 7:30am on a cold Super Bowl Sunday morning, a westbound U705 broke a couple rails east and west of Jesup on the CN Dubuque Sub. The signal maintainer came out and found a couple 2 inch break... (more)

The Rich Mountain area on the KCS Shreveport Sub is a well known location. The KCS goes up around the Quachita Mountains near the Oklahoma/Arkansas Stateline. Here trains go from 500 feet to the s... (more)

The Shreveport to KC freight train lumbers into the siding at Gentry to meet a grain train. The northbound freight is climbing from MP 225 to MP 219 on a 1% grade even thru the restricted speed si... (more)

The "machine verses gravity" show is going on in Northern Arkansas here. This loaded coal train off the BNSF is digging in on the final 1.5% grade into Decatur on the KCS Heavener Sub. ... (more)

The KC to Sanchez Yard - Nuevo Laredo, MX, freight train is back on the move after meeting one, following one. Both trains meet a northbound grain empty here at Watts on the Heavener Sub. The KCSZ... (more)

The Heavener Sub rolls south out of the Ozark Mountains towards the Arkansas River Valley. The railroad has 100 miles of Oklahoma running as they drop down from the 1321 feet summit at Gentry, AR,... (more)

A loaded grain train from Mexico, MO, bound for Mexico City, Mexico, twist upgrade out of Watts. The 2x2 Dp'd train is working over the 210 miles crew district from Pittsburg to Heavener. The trai... (more)

A loaded grain train from Mexico, MO, bound for Mexico City, Mexico, twist upgrade out of Watts. The 2x2 Dp'd train is working over the 210 miles crew district from Pittsburg to Heavener. The trai... (more)

The afternoon local out to Manchester and back has an easy night ahead. Only 3 cars off 338 is what they have to run out. Since it is Sunday, they will not connect with any Cedar Rapids Job, so th... (more)

"Line for 2 track, kick EJE 703," the conductor on L586 commands to his engineer. A puff a smoke comes out of these 2 old girls and the tanks are off for a ride. The crew on L586 continu... (more)

About 7:30am on a cold Super Bowl Sunday morning, a westbound U705 broke a couple rails east and west of Jesup on the CN Dubuque Sub. The signal maintainer came out and found a couple 2 inch break... (more)

Crazy how unit trains sometimes come in fleets to the Iowa Zone. This is the 3rd empty ethanol train to run the past 16 hours out of Hawthorne. An empty bound for Tara, IA, rolls between switches ... (more)

On Christmas Even the CN got somewhat creative and ran a doubled up ethanol train instead of the normal 338 with Iowa freight traffic. The lack of people probably drove the decision? The train was... (more)