An empty ethanol train from the NS at Chicago bound for Arthur, IA, rumbles west of the Dubuque Sub on a beautiful evening 5 miles west of Jesup. Getting trains on the west end of the Dubuque Sub ... (more)

Home to the Cedar River, Osage has been the starting and stopping point of crews working the Osage Sub for many years. This year that changed when District 2 CN crews got qualified to run to Charl... (more)

The 1st Cedar River job is on their way to Waterloo with cars mainly out of St. Ansgar. The job passes this 1941 Packard Clipper sitting on Main Street, Orchard. Side note: only 17,000 clippers we... (more)

The CNW ran a ton of grain trains to the ADM plant in Clinton out of Iowa. Many "CL"-bound grain trains could be found along the double-track mainline. For example, here, a load of grai... (more)

Calm Waters With Conrail In Cold Spring. On the morning of June 30, 2025, MTA Metro-North Railroad Train 838 was captured passing through Cold Spring, New York with MNCW P32AC-DM 201 (NYS-C... (more)

D40s and steel hoppers, an old-school coal train in the early 90s. An eastbound load passes by the iconic elevator structure at Clarence. The train is about 46 miles from the next crew change poin... (more)

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)

Lake Shore Limited passing Cortlandt station with P42DC 118 and P32AC-DM 709.

The NS 316 is crossing the Vermilion River, as seen through the boat hoist at the Vermilion Marina.

WAG7 #27728 hauled Pune bound loaded BCNA feright train near Malavli.

The Sprinter Club Meet On The Road. Both owners of the Siemens ACS-64 are present in Newark, Delaware, on the night of November 20, 2019 for a meet while heading for Philadelphia, Pennsylva... (more)

As I scan a lot of my early stuff, I see I went to a lot of places you wouldn't be caught dead in nowadays. It seems like in the 90s no one cared what you did; we were just a boy and his mom takin... (more)

Heading back into Nucor Steel's Darlington Plant is Nucor 04, a remote controlled (in case it wasn't clear) Baldwin VO-1000 repowered with an EMD prime mover. This locomotive was built by BLW for... (more)

The shop crew lifts the body of FEC430 off it's trucks to preform maintenance. Shot on a tour arranged by the Florida East Coast Railway Society. This shop is normally off limits to railfans.

The trains still run and the river still flows however times are changing, the Canadian Pacific has been replaced with CPKC and the Cascades plant is shut down. 7453 leads the morning CPKC 113 wes... (more)