The sun has just come up and illuminates the power in the Union Pacific's North Yard, including UP 1357, an ex DRGW GP40-2.
CSX freight R206 rolls across the bridge that spans the Big Sandy River and then drops the track back to ground level at Big Sandy Junction in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. It's a dreary Saturday mornin... (more)
The Alaska Railroad was where the interest in trains started for me. A return trip in 2014, my first time back to Alaska in 27 years, found some of the old engines were still around. 3005 used to... (more)
Despite record snow-pack in BC and the Northwest US, Spring rains melted the snow too soon, then fall fires and the driest September on record has drained the rivers. Ridership on the Rocky Mounta... (more)
GP40-2 8018 and GP40-2(W) 8013 depart from Kamloops and head east on the Shuswap Sub with Rocky Mountaineer's "First Passage West" tour train.
FEC work train AFW2 returns to the Fort Pierce yard after a day of unloading ballast on the new Brightline double track. It is seen here passing a newly constructed section of track on the south e... (more)
Officer special on a warm spring day.
On a beautiful fall morning, the crew of local D703, the Johnstown Jet, nears the small yard in Somerset where they'll do some switching before heading for Johnstown.
IHB power waits for the next assignment at the IHB Blue Island Yard on a beautiful fall morning.
WAMX 4010 at Great Bend, KS.
Plenty of old school EMD left on the FEC if you know where to look. Weekdays a fleet of locals work the line with EMD power.
At West Haven Station, CSX train L015 with 5 empty trash cars, makes a late-night run from Cedar Hill Yard to City Carting in Milford.
Bought new by Conrail.
The interchange from CSXT complete, the turn to Foley heads south.
The Sunday-Thursday local turn (Crestline, OH-Worthington, OH) heads LHF with a sizable cut of cars for the Budweiser plant in Worthington. In addition to the Budweiser plant, this local also work... (more)
