BN's engine replacement program started in 1988. GP20Cs #2000 was completed in September using the ex-CB&Q #2059 as the prototype. The unit received a Caterpillar 3516 2075-hp engine with a Kato a... (more)

The Metra rush is getting going here at A2. Amtrak joins the parade of trains as the Empire Builder is a few miles into the 2,200-mile trip from Chicago to Seattle/Portland as they pass through A2... (more)

The Amtrak Borealis is about to cross over at Rondout. The train is clicking off the last few miles into Union Station on the C&M Sub. The train makes the 411-mile trip between Chicago and St. Pau... (more)

Pretty sure the inbound Empire Builder #8 was fairly tardy into Chicago the day before. This was about the only train; I figured it could be at 10am heading out for Union Station. This crew is slo... (more)

The tri-weekly Cardinal arrives at Union Station in Chicago ahead to the 10am on time arrival. The train crosses through the massive Taylor/Roosevelt CPs on the south side of Union Station. The tr... (more)

CSX L702 going down track 1 through Monroe Yard

A busy day at United Taconite as U717 is waiting to depart back to CN's Proctor yard with 140 loads of iron ore, U730 is finished dumping crude ore for the plant and Keenan yards R901 job is finis... (more)

The white railcar RBDea 567 # 173 of StadlerRail pulls the streetcar transport train 44080 from Bussnang via Weinfelden-Winterthur-Kloten-Regensdorf-Brugg to Basel Bad Bf, on the Bözberg line bet... (more)

CTRR 36 and crew switch cars around at the Sappi mill on a day they would much rather not be with the slick conditions from the fog and freezing rain falling.

With warm temperatures and falling rain melting the snow, these two former Great Northern snow dozers sit, fitting along Winter Street on the end of BNSF's 28th Street yard in Superior, WI.

Bombardier TRAXX AC3 187 # 003 of the Railpool leasing company, rented to BLS Cargo, pulls the car import train 47011 from Basel Bad Bf over the Bözberg line to Lupfig, between Hornussen and Effi... (more)

The Siemens "Vectron" 7193 # 301 of the TXLogistik, part of the Mercitalia group, pulls the southbound car transport train 48657 from Düsseldorf/Germany via Basel-Bözberg-Gotthard mountain line ... (more)

Over the Bözberg line, there are Interregio trains every half an hour, called IR36. With very few exceptions, all trains are operated with the new “IRD” Interregio double-decker trains. RABe ... (more)

The Buffalo & Pittsburgh's BT3 job is now on the Northern Subdivision in East Butler, Pennsylvania after coming off the Main Line at WS Junction west of here. With the Main Line in the background ... (more)

KYLE 4461 leads the Limon to Salina freight past the elevator at Burlington. It is a shame that the classic car in the left corner of the frame is not in better shape.