CSX Train ID Q355 Rolls west through downtown as a helicopter flies off in the distance.

Rio Grande empty hopper train 705 threads its way through Byer’s Canyon. The general freight cars ahead of the hoppers will be set out at Phippsburg for local distribution before the empties pro... (more)

SD50’s!

Five, count ‘em, five Rio Grande SD50’s roll an empty hopper train through Granby, Colorado. The 46 car train is somewhat overpowered with 17,500 horsepower of the ne... (more)

A veteran CSX SD50 leads Q225 west through New London on old Big 4 trackage

Rio Grande train 706 creeps through the double track at Winter Park, Colorado, preparing for a meet with Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr. As soon as the passenger train clears, 66 lo... (more)

Three SD50’s bring train 706 with 66 cars of coal into the double track at Winter Park, Colorado. After waiting for Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr to clear, the train will cross t... (more)

CSX SD50 8577 leads Y123 east through Griffith, about to enter the Matteson Sub for the final few miles of its trip into Kirk.

An SD50 with YN2 paint is a rare treat these days. This one showed up at the Nissan automotive plant in Smyrna, TN, this week.

Renumbered Conrail SD60 leads a westbound stack train out of Pitcairn Yard.

A patched Conrail SD50 leads a westbound stack train past Pitcairn Yard.

A somewhat rare photo as the UP was not in the UP of Michigan for very long. Here, UP 5029 brings an ore train into the yard in Escanaba in November of 1996.

Working 2nd shift allowed me to catch this Conrail SD50 leading a weekday eastbound manifest past the classic Reading RR Lebanon Valley Branch signal in Sinking Spring. No. 6824 was built by EMD ... (more)

East meets west behind Cincinnati Union Terminal as CSXT SD50 8616 and BNSF C40-8W 873 (still in Santa Fe warbonnet paint) wait to head out on freights.

Eastbound coal arrives at Conrail’s Allentown, Pennsylvania yard on the former Reading East Penn line. The N&W box car is on one of the tracks that curve to the right as part of the former Jerse... (more)

A pair of UP SD60's run light through Mankato to go pull tank cars from an industry on the southwest side of town.