For the second time in the past month, Amtraks New Orleans to Chicago train has experienced locomotive issues, causing CN to send a rescue pilot to drag the set to Chicago. Todays rescue sports a ... (more)
A set of "Conrail Quality" EMD SD40-2's shove BAPI (Baltimore-Pittsburgh) up the Alleghenies.
BNSF 1826 (SD40-2 in old school paint) sits in the engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado.
Built for the Southern in 1973 today SD40-2 3219 is regulated to yard duty. Here it has pulled out onto the lead of the K&I bridge as it works the Louisville yard.
The afternoon job to Terra Haute is about to kick our ass and take names. The job left right around 15:55, and here we barely grab a shot outside of Jasonville. The next 40 minutes we would play &... (more)
The Moon Rises Over The Prairies As CP SD40-2 6030 Speeds East On The Taber Sub.
Local switching power at Sioux City on the BNSF. The power is parked at the northend of the yard where the Sioux City Sub meets the Marshall Sub. Kind of neat looking GP30 on the rear end.
Well, good news! The derail works! Just over two hours earlier, at 7:00, this Union Pacific switch job derailed as it was bringing a cut of cars forward (eastward) to cle... (more)
A local heads north past The Steel Works in Granite City, led by an NS SD40-2.
CSX local L022, with SD40-2 8840, getting ready to bring a cut of cars to ADM Milling.
Back in 2006, a pair of 40's rumble out of Davis Jct. on the IC&E with the Chicago Clearing to Huron manifest train. Here the train passes under highway 72 on the westside of town.
A pair of TRRA SD40-2's slowly shove back to the Madison Yard hump as they pass a gaggle of EMD's parked on the RIP track.
BRR SD40-2 5951 approaches Main St in Rosalind as it heads east on the Alliance Sub with the Shake off Winter excursion.
FEC #716 leads an Asplundh weed spray train towards Miami. The boxcar at the end of the train still wears an SCL/L&N Family Lines emblem.
NS P38 working Frito Lay in the Arrowood Industrial Park
