I wish EMD had sold more of these.

This is the first train I have seen on the new alignment. And it's just one locomotive away from being an AT&SF time capsule.

Two Santa Fe SD45's are switching industrial trackage

A clean SD45-2 leads a helper set into the Cresson Engine Terminal for servicing.

Note size of fuel tank

After sitting at the North end of the yard for 2 days, the ex BNSF has been placed at the South end to be picked up later this afternoon.

Sufficient power for a local? The start of CSX brought a flood of non-Chessie locomotives to Michigan rails, and some of them ended up performing some rather unusual services.

After a frantic repositioning of the tripod, the Brownwood to Pearland limestone train is caught unexpectedly taking the siding at Landes at 1220. The impossibly awesome lashup is SD45-2 6488 SD45... (more)

The U-BWWPEA strides through the agri-industrial remnants of Cameron at 1107.

BNSF 6488 East has became BNSF 6488 South and arrives from Brownwood at the South Fuel Pads and prepares for a quick crew change before proceeding southeast towards Houston. My excitement at disc... (more)

There aren't many things more inspiring to me than pacing 16,800 EMD horses straining to keep almost 11,000 tons of trailing tonnage moving at track speed. 30 Hyatt bearings jumping up and down o... (more)

BNSF 6488 South notches out on 87 limestone loads at 1448.

After being stuck in the hole at 'P-burg' for FIVE northbounds, BNSF 6488 South finally gets rolling again and drifts downgrade between Phillipsburg and Kenney at 1427.