Northbound Rumo helper locomotives, led by SD40T-2 No. 9479 (ex SP 8276), return light to Sarandi as they meet an empty train entering the CHS terminal lead at Marialva, on June 12, 2025.

On Conrail. Photo by Mike Dolenski.

Maybe the only caboose hop I ever shot on the SP, this one was actually headed west around the loop as I recall.

An eastbound piggyback races through rural territory. At once one of the best and one of the worst temporary duty experiences I ever had.

Emergency forces teams work on a multi-victim incident simulation for Yellow May, the month of traffic awareness, in partnership with Rumo LogĂ­stica, municipal bodies and emergency forces in Apuc... (more)

Second outing for the new tunnel motor pair. Having picked up cars here, they will work Highland Siding, a few miles east for a while before continuing down to Lake Placid.

Second outing for the new tunnel motor pair on the Sebring Turn. They got out of Clewiston pretty quick and met the rising sun here. It's not uncommon, especially out of season, to find a modest... (more)

Second outing for the new tunnel motor pair on the Sebring Turn. Believe me....waiting for the day the set is turned, but for now, this time of year, most places south of Sebring will favor a mor... (more)

Ex-DRGW #5412 has traded coasts, having been retired from PHL as their #50, refurbished at Western Rail in Airway Heights for US Sugar, making for a matching set of tunnel motor bodies on #6326's ... (more)

Some awesome hoarfrost is coating everything around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. An eastbound SP train hammers out of Galesburg. The train is on the BN's 2nd Sub and just pass... (more)

A quartet of Tunnel Motors lead an eastbound Southern Pacific freight as it departs San Luis Obispo with California's Coast Range mountains (and a vineyard) for a backdrop. The power is SP SD40T-... (more)

It's the golden hour in Golden Colorado and DRGW 5401 is seen stuffed and mounted at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Northbound empty led by Rumo LogĂ­stica's EMD SD40T-2 No. 9524 (built as Southern Pacific 8490 just behind ex SP 8276), rolls through the BR-376 highway viaduct in Mandaguari, PR on March 15, 2025... (more)

Northbound empty led by Rumo LogĂ­stica's EMD SD40T-2 No. 9524 (built as Southern Pacific 8490 just behind ex SP 8276), in the Mandaguari, PR, yard on March 15, 2025.

Amid the urban sprawl that NC is becoming, and in a horrible traffic jam we found a nice field and a southbound freight, bound for Fayetteville in the late afternoon sun.