Wheeling & Lake Erie Train #663 coming out of one of the industrial spurs.

Freshly rebuilt from Brookville, the 105 is seen here in the Harmon Locomotive shop on display. The remaining five GP35's are slated for rebuild. Photo taken with permission.

Eastbound Santa Fe manifest leaving Planada in the San Joaquin Valley

Eastbound Santa Fe manifest climbing Tehachapi grade at Cable and a day lighted tunnel.

Hustling eastbound through Cambridge, Nebraska, is BNSF GP39-3R 2691 and GP38-2 2304 and three Coalporter coal gondolas. Train L-NEB6021-13 is a local that works out of McCook, NE.

The motive power is pure Pennsylvania, but those are the Rockies not the Appalachians in the background, and we in Denver, watching CB&Q train 66 ease out of the 38th Street yard for Chicago. In 1... (more)

A southbound CMQ job stopped next to a small patch of black eyed susan flowers. Todays CMQ job has the regular ex Santa Fe GP35s for power and they will soon depart for Northern Maine Junction. ... (more)

Three LTEX GP35s head south at the Brownville Wye as a Maine Northern Job waits to head into Brownville Jct.

Three LTEX GP35s head south at Brownville Junction on the former Bangor and Aroostook.

BNSF 2643 leads the East Local back into Willmar on a pleasant summer afternoon.

The consist matches the dull day as a westbound train crosses over the Lehigh Valley and approaches East Penn Junction. This helps to illustrate why early Conrail was so difficult to swallow for t... (more)

Usually operating only once a week to Harrison, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local grinds up the 2.2% mountain grade near milepost 6 on June 22, 2015. The 3-car local is powered by MRL GP35s Nos. 403... (more)

An SP Dolores to Taylor yard "hauler" was using the original SP line to the ports along Alameda Street heading west near Dominquez Junction.

WE 110 and WE 2662 are in charge of the local from Canton to Sandyville Ohio. We see the engineer giving us a peace sign as he passes me.

Passing a rustic ranch, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local climbs the 2.2% mountain grade on this branch to Harrison, Montana, between milepost 5 and 6 on the way up to the service the elevator locat... (more)