CP train 3DRE-10 gets a quick flood loading job at the Dresser Trap Rock facility before heading home to Minneapolis.

A long overnight trip from New Castle, PA is almost over for the crew of this eastbound rack train as it rolls through Viaduct Jct. The Spirit of 76 flag was a well known fixture at ND Tower durin... (more)

Milwaukee Road 261 rolls west through the Kenwood neighborhood of Minneapolis on rails that once belonged to the M&StL and later, the C&NW. The locomotive was heading west with a short train over ... (more)

CP's MN&S job trundles south through Edina, emerging from the short tunnel that carries W 70th street over the former Minneapolis Northfield & Southern mainline.

The M&K pushers assist in getting an eastbound coal drag up to track speed after cresting the summit of Cranberry Grade at Terra Alta. This high plateau is locally known as the Glades and is one o... (more)

Iowa Chicago & Eastern's Mason City to Spencer train heads west past the eastward former Milwaukee Road distant signal in advance of the Union Pacific diamond at Garner. Fast forward to 2013, and ... (more)

The loneliest EMD on a railroad known for it's eclectic stable of ALCO and GE locomotives arrives at Bayport to switch the sprawling Andersen Window factory.

A trio of WC's finest have reached the summit of Byron Hill with a heavy manifest train bound for Chicago. Standing on the old County Highway F overpass listening to SD45s grind their way up the h... (more)

The crew of CSX's empty westbound Hanover Rock Runner makes use of the phone box during a pause at the former site of the Western Maryland Railway's Emory Grove tower. The train will then head wes... (more)

Former Rock Island GP7 4140 kicks cars at Butler Yard in a repeated cacophony of it's EMD 567 revving up, followed immediately by the squealing of brake shoes, a run-out of slack and, wait for it.... (more)

With a pair of CATs in full growl, RRVW's Hankinson Turn works the elevator at Fairmount while exercising trackage rights over CP's former SOO Line Elbow Lake Subdivision.

CSX E160 rolls across Wills Creek in downtown Cumberland, MD en route to Grafton, WV. Just as Chessie had attempted 15 years earlier with the then-new SD50s, CSX attempted to operate their new SD7... (more)

Minnesota Southern's weekday turn to the Union Pacific yard at Worthington slowly rumbles west towards Luverne to tie up for the night. This former CNW / Omaha Road granger line has proven to be a... (more)

For a time after the Conrail split, CSX's fleet of former CR SD80MACs were assigned to Grafton to Baltimore coal service. On this day #808 heading west on E160 meets sister unit #809 leading a B85... (more)

One of my favorite calls to get as an engineer was for a trip to Shaw Mine at the present day end of the B&O's former Salisbury Branch. On a fine September day, we're heading east with light power... (more)