Just days after shooting the NS OCS returning north from the Masters, ACWR was the next railroad to throw me a bone. After trailing on the inbound grain run, NS 1068 was flipped and assigned to th... (more)

I know people probably don't think of steep hills when they think of southwest Minnesota, but there are several places where trains face some fairly substantial grades on BNSF's Marshall Subdivisi... (more)

A pair of freight trains await their departure times at Union Pacific's West Colton Yard.

UP SD70ACe 8552 may head west to Arizona and beyond, or it could head north to the northern p... (more)

BNSF 8766 & 9007 power a westbound mixed freight.

CSXT B633 heads east through Iron Gate, VA with KCS power.

CSXT B633 heads east through Iron Gate, VA with KCS power.

CSXT B633 heads east through Clifton Forge, VA with KCS power.

CSX B634 in Waxhaw with Kansas City Southern power

BNSF 5360 (Dash9) muscles a coal train west on the Brush Sub through Keenesburg, Colorado.

UP SD70ACe 8760 leads a Long Beach-Denver Z train off of the BNSF trackage rights at Daggett, nearing a crew change ahead at Yermo.

Bathed in some of the last light of a nice spring evening, a heavy southbound BNSF grain train has been working hard for over an hour since leaving Marshall as they climb the hill up to the top of... (more)

BNSF 9167 (SD70ACe) leads a coal train east on the Brush Sub through Fort Morgan, Colorado.

BNSF 8507 climbs upgrade toward Ash Hill while passing through Bagdad.

Bluffing Over: KCS 4112 and KCS 4568 lead eastbound loaded ethanol train CSX B633 eastbound along the CSX James River Subdivision through Lyle, Virginia, as the train crosses the James in Buttons... (more)

Mallow Moves: KCS 4112 leads eastbound loaded ethanol train CSX B633 eastbound along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision through Mallow, Virginia, on the east end of Covington, Virginia.