While we were waiting for a photo run-by from USSC 148 at Keela, a loaded ballast train came up the SCFE mainline heading towards Clewiston. Views like this are typically blocked by sugarcane unti... (more)

A quartet of Montana Rail Link SD70ACe helpers return from Elliston, MT to Helena after moving a westbound unit grain train over Mullan Pass (cut-in mid-train). Herds of cattle are not an uncommon... (more)

An eastbound manifest drops downgrade through Shawsville, VA and an old John Deere tractor.

One of the most successful stories in modern rail preservation is that of the East Broad Top in Rockhill Furnace, PA. The coal and common carrier railroad was saved from scrap in 1956 by Nick Kova... (more)

A short 279 winds through Shawsville, VA on a warm and pleasant afternoon. The tractor and plow just finished a day of work as evident by the freshly disturbed soil.

Iowa Interstate RR rolls Eastbound through Malcom Iowa at sunset. The crossing was currently closed off due to road construction of the crossing

Union Pacific Intermodal , Eastbound at sunset with 4 units leading. Fairfax Iowa UP line.

The BNSF still operates about 100 miles of ex-MILW mainline in western Iowa. Bayard Local LHLA609 works 5 days a week out to Bayard doing local work. Here the job slowly heads back to Council Bluf... (more)

Friday's photo charter heads southward from Keela on the Okeelanta branch that serves Domino Sugar. The train has just crossed the diamond with what has become the USSC mainline since branches we... (more)

Harvest Season - An empty Coal train rolls Eastbound in Deshler Ohio at sunset , while the farmers work their fields

CN train A407 heads north through the small town of Buckley with IC 1005 & 1033 in charge on this beautiful September afternoon.

With fall foliage at near peak, the South Branch Valley Petersburg freight flies by the unincorporated community of Vanderlip, WV.

Canadian Pacific train CP 930 departs Rouses Point with a great all EMD lashup of BNSF 9721, UP 8582 and UP 9010 that makes this scene seem right out of the western US

“Tie on the Old Feedbag”
Maryland Midland’s UBHF, still operating on its winter schedule despite the calendar, heads west with 20 cement loads through Detour, Maryland. At 17:18, i... (more)

Three horsies, horsing around and three motors with a lot of horsies inside.