IC 6253 and 3 tunnel motors has just loaded 145 cars of fresh taconite, and has started its journey to Two Harbors, where it'll be unloaded, then the process will be started all over again.

After making the trip north from Proctor, IC 6251 leads another IC SD40-3 and a CN-painted, DMIR tunnel motor into the United Taconite loadout at Fairlane.

Having completed the trip from Fairlane, IC 6260 and 2 Canadian 40s enter the yard tracks in Proctor. Before the train was finished passing, the sun would disappear, disappointing us for the empty... (more)

A mish-mash of power is seen this morning at the diesel shops at Proctor, still primarily dominated by EMD's SD40 class. In this view we have SD40-2W, SD45T-2, SD40u, and the standard, SD40-2. How... (more)

Most coal trains that traverse the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision are too long to get the whole train in one shot while going around Big 10 curve, unless you do a lot of hiking for a different angle. H... (more)

BNSF 8533 leads 8531 and 8530 on their first revenue run, a coal load dropping down UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The train is seen here dropping down from Tunnel 1, and will soon be going 180 d... (more)

A Hudson Bay Railway Geep leads the daily Great Western Railway train out of Loveland for Johnstown, seen here climbing the hill out of Loveland near Officer Junction. The locomotive doesn't seem ... (more)

Two Hudson Bay Railway GP35s back towards Ranchway Feeds, where the duo will pick up a single grain car. The HBRY locomotive was once a Southern Pacific locomotive.

Only a couple weeks after the Moffat Tunnel Sub had reopened due to washouts, two coal trains meet at Tolland siding, just a few miles from the famous Moffat Tunnel and the continental divide.

The historic Colorado floods of 2013 closed UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision for almost 2 months, during which time Amtrak's California Zephyr was detoured through Wyoming across the Overland. Here,... (more)

A BNSF grain train passes the former CB&Q depot, now the Gage County Museum, in downtown Beatrice, NE. The train is about to pass their 5 mph speed board, so the long unit train will take awhile t... (more)

In a scene straight out of 1996, consecutively-numbered "goatboat" C44-9Ws lead a stack train west through the Quiet Zone in Sauk Rapids, MN.

2 grinstein SD70MACs and a SD70ACe lead an empty coal train westward through central Minnesota en route to the Powder River Basin for another load of black diamonds.

With 3 SD40-2s leading the way, the Longmont Switch pulls up the nearly 1.8% grade of Derby Hill out of Loveland, CO. The horseshoe curve and longer-than-normal train meant this train was WORKING,... (more)

An evolution of the rear of a train! BNSF 9179 shoves hard on the back of a loaded coal train as what we believe to be a former Rock Island caboose sits on display near the UP mainline. The lineag... (more)