The blue hour is fading into evening as Yadkin Valley 8781 (former CSX 8781), and Knoxville Locomotive Works KLWX 1998, spend a quiet and cold evening at the diesel shop in the Yadkin Donnaha yard... (more)

T004 is tied down just outside of downtown Fox Lake, due to not making the Metra curfew earlier in the morning. The usual night crew would show up later in the evening to take the train the rest o... (more)

Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

WAMX 6023 leads a very rare daylight run of the T004 through Rondout, Illinois. Passing the no longer manned interlocking tower, the train is exiting Metra's Fox Lake Subdivision and will soon ent... (more)

WSOR T004 thunders along a frozen and snow covered Long Lake, as it makes way towards BRC's Clearing Yard. Navigating the Metra Fox Lake Sub, WAMX 6023, 4173, 6022 and 4177 sound great in run 8. D... (more)

After arriving at Hodge Yard, the Cresson Turn takes headroom as the train passes the TEXRail passenger yard.

It's a sunny morning in Fort Worth as the Cresson Job returns home to Hodge Yard behind five SD60M's.

The Cresson Turn builds air with a quintuplet of SD60M's.

FWWR always keeps their engines clean

With temps in the single digits and fresh snow on the ground, five FWWR SD60M's find themselves in unfamiliar conditions as they depart Hodge Yard with the day's Cresson Turn.

A LCHI105 consisting of a H1 SD40-2, a GP60B, and a SD60M heads West into the setting sun in pure golden hour outside of Mazon.

LCHI105 heading West on the former Santa Fe, the current BNSF Chillicothe Sub, with a consist of a former BN SD60M, a GP60B, a BN SD40-2, and another SD60M. The large elevator complex in the backg... (more)

Power for the Cresson Turn is taking Sunday off

With the Northern Lights overhead, the T004 picks up grain from Zenda on its way to Chicago.

As the last rays of sunlight prepare to disappear below the horizon, T004 is tied down on the main at Bardwell. The train consists of three SD60Ms, and cars bound for the BRC's Clearing Yard. Late... (more)