The funicular just starts down as eastbound manifest 10N, with a helper set on the lead and on the rear, strolls down the hill toward Altoona rolling around Horseshoe Curve.

Westbound grain train G285 approaches Albion, IN on the Garrett Sub on a clear Indiana fall afternoon.

The UP heritage lashup with the 1988, 1989, and 1996 is eastbound with a long mainfest near Union Grove, IL.

The eastbound Zephyr works down the hill along the banks of the Truckee River.

With the town of Logansport in the distance, a grain train with an old Conrail soldier in the lead crawls up the .97 percent grade of the Clymers hill in the days last minutes of sun.

NS train 63N has part of it's train over the Burket Hill working eastbound at MP417 on the Chicago District with a IC SD70 leading the way. A nice way to start 2011.

Fall colors embrace Horseshoe Curve as a pair of SD40-2's help ease coal train C90 downgrade and around the curve.

In the midst of a spectacular Arizona sunset, a long eastbound manifest crawls it's way up the grade at Maine and to an elevation of over 7400 ft.

The afternoon shadows are creeping in as a stack train strolls down the Canyon Sub, over the Feather River and under highway 70 at Pulga, CA.

With 3 up front and one GE bringing up the rear, this loaded steel train makes good time westbound on the Seligman Sub.

The NYC heritage unit leads a 64R eastbound oil train under the cantilever at CP 435 in South Bend, IN on the ex-NYC water level route.

A pair of 70's lead a westbound rack train along the Truckee River, just east of the river's namesake town.

Two dash 9's are in charge of eastbound stack train I0G as they ease down the grade toward Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.

In the midst of a January snow squal, NS 16K cruises east past the courthouse and old depot in downtown Huntington, IN.

The sun is setting fast on what was a gorgeous fall day on the Chilli Sub as our last train of the day races west toward the setting sun.