M 399 rolls by Indian Lake, Michigan. The train is currently on the Hot Box Detector at Mile Post 155.6 as it heads West for Kirk Yard.

A hoe digs reject coal out of train L768 at the Cardinal River load out. This could very well be my last shot of a train up here as the mine has since been shut down. RIP.

NS 64M slowly making their way to Bluefield with a Canadian Duo at Falls Mills

CN 120 has a long train (656 axles) and 3 units up front (CN 2857, CN 8835 & CN 8011) and another mid-train (CN 2970) as it crosses the Richelieu River a bit before noon on a cold but sunny mornin... (more)

This 50 car cut has descended the 3% portion of the Luscar Industrial Spur. The train crossed Luscar Creek at the bottom of the grade and is now climbing a short 1.5% grade to a connection with t... (more)

Two new GE's pull a loaded 50 car section of a Luscar coal train up the twisting grade near Steeper, AB. The grade here is about 1.1% and 2 GE's can lift a 50 car train un-assisted. The rear of t... (more)

The Luscar industrial spur and load out serves Teck's Cardinal River Coal Mine near Cadomin, AB. The mine extracts high quality coking-coal for the steel industry world wide. The Canadian Nationa... (more)

CN 342 pulls hard approaching Parkland ... (more)

A pair of CN's first AC power units drag this south bound stacker south through Duplainville.

The DPUs on train X458 (Swan Landing-Grande Prairie) hold the main at the south end of Grey while A459 (Grande Prairie-Swan Landing) passes on the siding. X458 consisted of 82 loads of frac sand.

Quite the colorful and unique consist leads an ore train bound eventually for Escanaba, Michigan.

First E-Rail of the year struggles to regain 40 mph just south of Rockmont. This was basically a "free" shot, if you will. My other shots were planned and when I realized they were going slow enou... (more)

Only a few months old, this GEVO heads up the first Escanaba bound E-Rail of the year. Train is longer than in 2012, where you could see the DPU from this spot. Although when they first went by me... (more)

The first seasonal ore train from U.S. Steel's Minntac plant to the Port of Escanaba (Michigan) rolls south across the St. Louis River with 200 light-loaded cars (CN 8102 was on the rear and the e... (more)