After being blocked by Q351-13 and K488-11 Q191-13 starts it's journey towards Chicago to be handed off to UP.

It was a little bit of a surprise to see this banana unit bringing up the rear of NS 340! Here, you can see it going into the siding at Toomsuba as it meets NS 355.

CSX Q605 has made Pascagoula, MS, and the end of shooting for the day for me. I chased this guy in pouring rain from Pollard, Alabama, to Pascagoula, MS. The weather did a complete 180 in Saint El... (more)

Fortunately the special encounter some traffic at Garfield so I was able to get one more shot at LM Bryon. He passed me here like a rocket ship.

After shooting my first shot of the officers special at Faust. I had plans for a couple other shots. Well after I got my first shot. The 3084 put the peddle to metal. I was on a country road going... (more)

I got the chance to catch a Yuma to Council Bluffs engineering special. Lead by a shiny SD70ACe-T4 3084.

At 500mm and an aperture of F5.6 we see CSX Q605 hitting some jaw dropping drop under light in Saint Elmo after an all day run in nothing but horrendous severe weather. The engineer was in run 8 a... (more)

UP 3084 leads a 3 car special Northbound on the Palmdale Cutoff at Canyon. The train will enter BNSF rails using the Silverwood connector for the run back to home rails at Daggett.

A UP Officer's Special arrives at ICTF. After dropping off their passengers, the train will wye and return east towards Council Bluffs, IA. On the left, PHL YPUP06 prepares to shove a stack train ... (more)

A new EMD demonstrator unit tied down in the yard waiting to head back to Shreveport Louisiana

Making good time, this short UP special makes a quick crew change and continues heading south.

UP's IG2LA is stopped at the south end of Dike, holding the main with T4 #3067 on the point. The train has crossover onto the UP Mojave Subdivision at Silverwood after having been on the BNSF sinc... (more)

SD70ACe-T4 3071 is rolling through the openness of Erda, Utah, with a 8800 ton train. It's about to enter the city of Tooele/Warner on the Lynndyl Subdivision.

My opportunities to catch EMD Tier 4's has been few and far between. I was elated to catch one tonight. It was neat to hear it by itself working it's guts out, to get an idea of what they really s... (more)

On a spotless spring afternoon CSX southbound freight Q453 is lead by a double pairing of CSX's new ST70AH's. Framed by the gorgeous ACL depot and spanish moss these newer motors look right at hom... (more)