Shining Ernakulam WDG 3A lets out some smoke as it leads Kannur-Alappuzha express after a brief halt at Turavur

The mid eighties was a colorful time for CSX made of various roads and you never knew what might be leading a train. On this day a trio of Chessie painted SD's lead a northbound out of Louisville ... (more)

An empty westbound Missouri Pacific coal train with MP SD40-2 3235, Rio Grande SD40T-2 5392, MP SD40-2 3214 and a yellow/gray MP SD40-2 3228 leaving Houston, Texas.

The engineer just shifted up the gear for the grade from the Salar de Ascotan to the Salar de Caracote. GT22CU-3(rebuilt GR 12) # 2402 and GL26C-2 # 2010 and # 2005 are running on about 3730 meter... (more)

A Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western “corn train” rolls southbound at Merida, North Dakota, on August 29, 2018. The unit train is powered by a pair of SD60Fs recently acquired from Canadian Nat... (more)

GTW 4622 leads CN L516 as it storms through Ivanhoe in Gary, Indiana

Very sad, one of the most spectacular railroads worldwide, the 1 meter gauge line Chañaral - Llanta - Potrerillos, is shut down since march 2015, largely destroyed between Llanta and Chañaral by... (more)

A spartan cab SD70 and an ex CSX Dash 8 (now part of the GE Lease Fleet) lead NS manifest freight 309 as it passes the station in Hornell on the Southern Tier Line.

Locomotives:
NS 2563... (more)

A loaded coal train bound for the IAIS has just departed the TZPR's Creve Couer Yard in Peoria. This job is crossing a very high Illinois River near Bridge Jct back in 2008. With the river high 3-... (more)

Notching up

As the section got cleared and signal jumped to green, VATVA WDM-3A with HUMSAFAR Express smoking lightly as it notches up

A CNJ westbound with RS3 1548 - GP7 1526 - RS3 1549 storms through Bound Brook station. As usual, I was out with my father this day, and seem suitably impressed with the passing train. R.T. Stein... (more)

After making it's pickup from the CSXT Q424 freight, the Housatonic crew departs west on the main with two classic old Geeps with former CR GP35 3600 and former BAR GP7u 22.

VIA 2, "The Canadian," with 4 F40PH-3s on the point, makes it's way out of Vancouver's Pacific Central Station and into the Grandview Cut as it begins its 4-day transcontinental journey ... (more)