The culprit of the shooting flames is CREX C40-8 #9048

We're just over 10,000 feet high in elevation here at the top of Cumbres Pass in southwestern Colorado just after a 40 minute snow squall had come through. Below is a Cumbres & Toltec Scenic freig... (more)

Union Pacific SD70AH #1943 'The Spirit of Union Pacific' leads a Denver to Grand Junction officer special across the Colorado River along the ex D&RGW Dotsero Cutoff.

A BNSF Seattle - Chicago intermodal follows the Kootenai River under an ominous wildfire smoke filled sky.

How to get to the valley floor where the marble deposits are? 4.5% grades and a switchback. GNRR GP10 #7562 backs down the switchback with three hoppers on a mine run to Imerys on this former Geor... (more)

The rain only added to P26's complications this afternoon. It took him almost an hour to get from Birmont Jct to this spot, King Plow. The reason, from listening to the scanner, was because someon... (more)

EMDX #7233 yards train #220 at Inman Yard

Southern Railway #4501 tears through the junction at Ooltewah,TN onto the A-Line with an hour late excursion train for Cleveland,TN and back to the TVRM. The 4501 was later sidelined temporarily d... (more)

Military train 056 makes its way north through Atlanta on the Piedmont while #153 watches from Mecaslin Street.

The early morning sun greets an empty CSX Brice coal train E321 starting into the cut beside the Levisa Fork in Pikeville,KY.

Norfolk Southern SD70ACe #1028 pulls high with a string of empty coke hoppers for loading at SunCoke

A BNSF Portland,OR - Los Angeles,CA intermodal train is detouring through the heart of the Powder River Basin due to fires in northern California. It's seen passing under part of the Thunder Basin... (more)

We lucked into catching the last two days of Cumbres & Toltec's engineers school. They were using K-36 class #484 pulling 9 freight cars and a caboose seen here a couple miles west of Los Pinos.

After shoving the 'road' train onto the south leg of the wye at Bowersville, engineer Eddie grabs a pair of GP35's to move storage cars off of the main so we could continue south to Elberton. L... (more)

Union Pacific empties take the wye off BNSF's quadruple track mainline at 'Thunder Junction West' to get loaded at the largest coal mine in North America.