6441 creeps across Jackson St. in Garrett, near the junction of the Berlin Branch with the Keystone Subdivision. The former B&O's Berlin Branch was abandoned not long after this photo was taken, a... (more)

Former Western Maryland #3799 leads a quintet of EMDs upgrade through Keystone. The summit at Sand Patch is just ahead, followed by a long descent to Cumberland.

Long before the CIC went to Gensets, they had regular geeps for power. They also went to Iowa City to deliver to the IAIS via the Hills Line. Nowadays all that has changed, as the IAIS uses the Ce... (more)

CNW 6805 leads train ALSSA across the Red Cedar River near Menomonie, WI in March of 1990.

I read the Granite City ore trains might date back as far as the 70s. The plant was finally idled in 2023 after a few years of up-and-down cycles with the steel industry. Mike Cleary mentioned the... (more)

BN's engine replacement program started in 1988. GP20Cs #2000 was completed in September using the ex-CB&Q #2059 as the prototype. The unit received a Caterpillar 3516 2075-hp engine with a Kato a... (more)

UP 7088 West follows the former Rio Grande along the Book Cliffs west of Green River, UT. Ektachrome.

A neat power combination typical of the early post-merger years has SD75M 217 leading GP30u 2420 and B30-7B 4096 on an eastbound manifest near Laguna, NM. Fuji Astia.

BNSF 715 works up the long grade from the Rio Grande valley to Mountainair, NM on a frosty Saturday morning. Ektachrome.

Into the Storm … on New Year's Eve

?= Heading into a storm pounding northern Orange County is Amtrak San Diegan 773. This train, which originated in San Diego, is... (more)

A pair of helpers, or snappers, are coupled ahead of the SD60I road power on RR-261 - a westbound roadrailer with 57 trailers mounted on bogies. The train is moving up the 1.8% grade on the east s... (more)

Climbing up the western side of the Tehachapi Mountains is Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Highest Priority TOFC/COFC train 7-991-07, 300-or-so miles into its journey from northern California... (more)

It's 8:25am on a Saturday morning as CR 6080 and SD60M 5527 lead an eastbound coal train into the rising sun. Although inactive since the mid-1980s, the 1899 vintage interlocking tower still remai... (more)

The Mississippi River bluffs make a fine backdrop for BN 6785 as it leads a southbound (timetable east) grain train thru La Crosse, WI in January of 1993.

CNW 8672 and 8606 lead a 113 car Chicago-Roper manifest through Missouri Valley, IA on an October afternoon. Fuji Sensia.