The 2nd section of the Des Moines to Proviso manifest drops downgrade into DeWitt on the East Iowa Sub. The train is roughly 20 miles from the crew change at Clinton. The CNW 8547 became the CN 21... (more)

ATSF 902 E/B Intermodal climbing through Abo Canyon on February 2, 1995 with ATSF 5953 and a second ATSF GE. This is above Bridge 4 in Abo Canyon and approaching the signal at MP 871.1.

ATSF 930 E/B Intermodal on December 27, 1997 with ATSF 221 and an LMX lease unit exit Abo Canyon, NM on a -14-degree morning in the snow. Slight color reflection on the snow. Roster shot.

BNSF 926 leads an E/B Intermodal across Bridge 5 in the upper portion of Abo Canyon on March 19, 1996 with BNSF 533 and an ATSF GE.

CSX Q492 passing the now gone ACL searchlight signals at New Hope on the A-Line

E/B ATSF 905 Intermodal rolls through the cut at Mountainair, NM with BNSF 8275 on August 23, 1997.

Morning at Orleans Road, WV finds the 7887 leading auto racks west toward Cumberland. Baltimore & Ohio's unique CPLs still proliferated on this segment of railroad at the time.

B&E orange C40-8W 7881 leads EDRJ through Glenville with the Veterans trailing 4/4.

ATSF 528 E/B Intermodal crossing Bridge 7 near the top of Abo Canyon, NM on October 5, 1996 with BNSF 131, a GP60B and SDF40-2. I wish I had taken more Abo photos from this vantage point.

A surprised find off the BNSF mainline at Ottawa, KS.

LHF Scrap Shove A yard job kicks a few scrap gons just out of Rumpke recycling at the right of the picture.

Having received a fresh crew, CFE 4034 and 4035 smoke it up as they accelerate from a stop at the IL-IN state border in Calumet City, IL, ready to continue eastbound with CHFW.

Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern's FWCH train arrives in Dolton, IL behind C40-8Ws 4035 and 4034, moments away from arriving at its terminus in IHB's Blue Island Yard.

Washington Easter RR, WER 7348 departing the Coulee City elevators with an E/B "Scoot Train" with WER 7363 on June 7, 2022 for 4 Lakes, WA. Both units are former Conrail/CSX Dash 8 GE un... (more)

It was barely a week after NS assumed operations on Conrail lines and their photogenic black was already infiltrating the familiar Conrail blue power consists. A westbound trailvan drops downgrade... (more)