It's a rainy afternoon on the east side of Erie, Pennsylvania as a veteran SD40-2 leads manifest freight Q634 towards Walbridge Road. CSX 8849 is a former Conrail SD40-2 built new for the railroad... (more)

A BNSF southbound manifest is in full dramatic storm light from a break in between the HPC’s (high precipitation cell). BNSF 8347 is about to roll forward after waiting at Spruce on the Colorado J... (more)

With threatening skies overhead, BNSF 6689 leads the Denver, CO to Laurel, MT manifest through Niwot, CO on May 27th, 2020.

Union Pacific 1049 is tied down for the night as a thunderstorm rolls through Malvern, Arkansas.

The NS V79 with 2 EMD GP38-2's, NS 5642 "Training First Responders", NS 5198 and N&W caboose 518600, head north over a heavily flooded Mayo River.

SP 9612 east leaves Tucson, AZ under stormy skies in the late afternoon.

A loaded Pawnee coal train makes its way up the branch towards the Xcel Energy power plant in Fort Morgan, CO. This is the 3rd Pawnee loaded train this year, and a sign that coal sets are returnin... (more)

CN 5445 leads CN M337 west through North Riverside as thunderhead clouds build to the east.

With a storm brewing towards the east, the Buck local heads back towards the mainline after making its trip up the Lafayette Branch to service the two customers at the end of the line. Once the lo... (more)

L529 makes its way down the flooded Romeoville Lead. They would later tie down because this stretch of track became impassable.

Seen near Tuscola, UP 1066, still in its Southern Pacific colors, leads the LSB54 local north towards Villa Grove. The storms had been off and on today as a front moved through the area. They sure... (more)

Going back to a time where NS Dash 8 locomotives still roamed and the Lafayette District was a hopping place....as now the NS is a shell of what it once was when it comes to motive power. Dash 8s,... (more)

As the sun breaks out at the perfect time, a rainbow brightens up the sky near near Drake, AZ as a westbound a train works it's way towards Phoenix.

After a day of thunderstorms across northern Colorado, the rain has paused as UP's Missouri-Kansas-Texas heritage unit races through the farmlands of Gilcrest, CO on the point of the hotshot LA to... (more)