The rear of a Princess Lines cruise train passes over 20 Mile River just north of the junction at Portage.
Three of MRL's SD45-2XRs roar west along the Montana countryside with 8025 tons of mixed freight in tow. The leader would later throw a ground relay and be replaced at Livingston with a SD40-2XR.
Amtrak #4 pauses at the mainline fuel pad at Argentine Yard for fuel before running east into it's stop at Kansas City Union Station.
A sugar cane load heads down the former FEC K Branch to the large United States Sugar Corp. processing plant at Clewiston.
The northbound Anchorage to Fairbanks freight eases across the Matanuska River just a little under an hour into the 350 mile long trip into the interior of Alaska.
A pair of MRL's newest locomotives leads the ML through the east end of Greycliff where modern colorlight signals have recently replaced the aging former Northern Pacific searchlights.
The eastbound Southwest Chief races along nearly six hours late due to a late departure out of Los Angeles two evenings prior. Train #4 has also routinely been running late for the past few weeks ... (more)
While the "Black Fog of Blossburg" isn't as impressive as it once was, the sight of blue SD40s leading anything over the Continental Divide west of Helena makes for an awe inspiring sigh... (more)
The second trip of the day for the BNSF Employee Special in Newton, KS sees the train rolling west alongside the UP's former Rock Island "Golden State Route" west of Hutchinson.
One of ten specially painted 25th Anniversary units leads a Hutchinson, KS to Galesburg, IL freight through NR Junction on the east side of Emporia
After running the full length of their assigned territory west to Whitehall, the 844 local is returning east as it enters the west end of Jefferson River Canyon on their way to Logan.
Light power sits on Main One waiting for other traffic to pass by before crossing over and reversing back west to Emporia Yard.
General Electric meets Chevrolet as the DP on an El Paso, Texas bound grain train rolls past "Cruise Night" in Parkville, MO.
Dying sunflowers greet a Kansas City, KS to North Bay, CA Z train just west of the crossovers at Ellinor.
The drab, boringness of late Fall has set in as this westbound intermodal snakes through the Flint Hills.