A busy day at the Academy siding with a six-way meet taking place over the course of a few minutes. Here a northbound manifest, the second in a string of five trains, pulls past a loaded coal tra... (more)

Regardless of what else I see when I'm out, I consider it a good day when I see a dual-window SD60M leading a train. It's an added bonus when it's as clean as this one leading westbound coal empt... (more)

HE 8170 'slams' (5 MPH) the Navajoe grade crossing in preparation for dropping its load of wallboard.

A southbound freight is dwarfed by the scenery as it works its way along the Turnagain Arm bound for Whittier. Scenes like this abound in Alaska and it doesn't take long to appreciate how much ma... (more)

A couple of black visitors lead today's H-train out of the yard for a run south on the Hillsboro Sub. While it may not seem exciting to see an all-black lashup elsewhere, it's good news up here a... (more)

After picking up some cars, BNSF 2795 leads the Drayton Local out of Minto and south toward Grand Forks. I'm not a horn guy, but I do like the sound this particular GP39-2 puts out!

An odd-looking (in Pumpkin I paint anyway) B40-8 leads a 106-car manifest off the wye across Demers Ave.

Black diamonds struggle south through Greenland as the distant twin buttes of Raspberry Butte and Monkey Face stand watch.

UP 5829 fronts CSUX hoppers as they make their way south for the Martin Drake Power Plant in downtown Colorado Springs.

After picking up a new crew at DL Switch, this Alton-bound grain empty comes around the west leg of the wye past the Amtrak Station and onto the Hillsboro Sub for a 39 mile trip south to its desti... (more)

A familiar face gives me a friendly wave as he runs another stack re-route west on the DL Sub and around the curve in Arvilla.

More NS power fronts the daily H-train as a railfan heads back to his ride after taking a shot. I thought the Santa Fe GP60M was going to be in the lead when I saw the power in the yard earlier, ... (more)

All three BNSF heritage/merger schemes are present on this northbound manifest as it works through the Greenland Open Space. It's interesting to note that the H1 paint seems to have held up the b... (more)

Anyone else tired of seeing UP where they don't belong? In the Metro East, they run the CN/IC, the CSX IL Sub, and now here is UP 4775 leading a westbound intermodal on the NS main into E. St. Lo... (more)

J.B. Hunt trailers roll westbound through the Minnesota countryside, which is looking more and more Spring-like every day!