A Selma-bound loaded ethanol train approaches the diamond at Boylan behind a UP leader. Foreign power doesn't usually make it beyond Roanoke on these trains, so this set was a nice surprise. Boyla... (more)

NS 4747 is on 23G in South Plainfield, NJ 2/28/2026.

A sunny April afternoon finds M805 (curfew symboled M605) coming through Opelika and passing cars occupying the two spur tracks next to the old freight house. Prior to the PSR crazy of 2017, thes... (more)

UP 6573 (AC4400CW) passes a southbound freight at Speer, Wyoming.

It is just after sunset in Apex as L620 heads towards Raleigh, passing L614. L614 will shove out behind them to the storage track to set out some cars before proceeding south to Moncure.

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

A recently repainted AC44 leads MHKRV South along Upper Klamath Lake, just north of Klamath Falls, on the UP Cascade Subdivision. This is a daily freight train running from Hinkle, Oregon, to R... (more)

This day’s M527 is not utilizing CPKC foreign power as it typically does, but is instead lead by a CSX AC4400 dressed in the YN3 scheme. The train is of moderate size today with 51 cars but som... (more)

Canadian Pacific #8020 leads Charlotte. NC empties bound for Bensenville, IL past the US&S signals at Ashford on the former CRR.

Canadian Pacific #8020 leads Charlotte. NC empties bound for Bensenville, IL across the Catawba River at Lake James in Marion, NC.

One of my favorite spot to catch a train. The challenge is it's a bit of a drive. And getting a train to cooperate. It's a fun place to listen. You can't really see him until he come around the co... (more)

All stretched out at Saint John, on the Lynndyl Sub. It's through this section the trains get up and haul 20 miles.

Union Pacific 7111 rounds the curve with the town of Stansbury Park, Utah below. In the distance is the Great Salt Lake, and Stansbury Island.

A solo KCSM AC4400CW, still wearing its gray ghost scheme, works hard to keep a lengthy train 247 at a respectable speed. The train has just crossed the state line into Wisconsin and is passing MP... (more)

CSX Q675 running beside HWY 903 in Edgemoor