One of Metra’s new locomotives, the SD70MACH, is seen here rounding around Tower A2 just outside of downtown Chicago. Surreal feeling watching these new rebuilt passenger spec coal-hauling engin... (more)

The talk of the town, Metra’s new six-axle toys, have been quite desired among railfans native to the city… myself included. After running rush hour sets in the overnight hours, the 505 makes ... (more)

As Chicagoland preps for the Christmas weekend, IAIS provides a Christmas present of their own. A GP38 & the 516 heritage locomotive on the morning eastbound into Blue Island, seen here passing th... (more)

Canadian Pacific heritage leads Atlanta bound intermodal train #244 into Douglasville

CSX's L810 local shoves into the GEO Specialty Chemical industrial lead with a nice GP40-2 leader

A pair of General Electric demonstrators, GECX 2025 and 2037, sit in the small engine facility in BNSF Railway's San Bernardino A Yard. These test locomotives were either ES44AC, ES44A6, ES44C6 o... (more)

Southern Indiana is flat, more or less, not what the boy from Appalachia thinks of as coal country but nevertheless they produce millions of tons from pit mining and three railroads converged at ... (more)

CN C704 rolls south through Lucedale, MS on CN’s Beaumont Subdivision. The 135-car coal train is on the last leg of its journey from the Powder River Basin as they approach Evanston, where the t... (more)

The pay was low and erratic but being in the equipment business had its fringe benefits like the guided tours such as one that got us a trip through this great operation. This unit was originally... (more)

It's the first day of the Canadian Pacific / Kansas City Southern merger as Bensenville-Deltaport train 149-10 slows for arrival at the terminal with specially painted ES44AC 8757 leading.

For spectators traveling to Davos for the "Spengler Cup" ice hockey matches, 3 extra trains ran from Landquart to Davos Platz on 26 December, in addition to the half-hourly scheduled tra... (more)

In the latter half of 2013 General Electric built a group of EF44AC 4500hp Tier 4 emissions test locomotives, painted blue and sent out to test on several railroads, including (as seen here) Union... (more)

Amtrak's Polar Express is seen crossing Clinton Street as it heads into the north end of Chicago Union Station with the Phase III -8 heritage P42 doing the honors.

Tennessee Central Railway Museum's Fall Yard Sale excursion to Watertown passes through Lebanon on it's return to Nashville.

Tennessee Central Railway Museum's Fall Yard Sale excursion to Watertown passes through Mt. Juliet on it's return to Nashville.