With both the "Virginian" and "Conrail" heritage units leading, 12Z pauses for a quick moment on the bridge while a motorboat races by the scene. The conductor may or may not have used this as a... (more)

13R races south just before sunset after following a very late 289 southward.

NS 12Z with blasts north on the Lurgan Branch in nice morning light with both the "Virginian" and "Conrail" heritage units. Also note the PC and CR gons behind the locomotives.

Midwest Morning | A well-used SD70ACe and a "warbonnet" dash-9 lead a westbound manifest freight train through Aurora, MO shortly after a quick rain shower on the morning of Satur... (more)

B779 with Norfolk Southern SD70ACe this morning in Newark.

NS 69N in the Golden Hour in Hornell

After holding up for MoW in the small town of Vesuvius, VA down at the bottom of the grade another Railfan looks on taking photo's as the Northbound NS 12Z with double heritage units on the head, ... (more)

In far western Iowa, the UP has a secondary mainline that comes out of St. Paul, towards Sioux City, and onto Council Bluffs. North of Sioux City, the CN and UP have joint trackage that UP dispatc... (more)

KCS 4129 pushes hard on the rear of a loaded grain train as they go over the Eagle River.

Burning diesel fuel to make the climb up and over the Laurentian Divide in a few miles, KCS 4185 pulls CN train A439 through Virginia, MN on a nice afternoon.

KCSM 4096 leads a loaded grain train just south of Hodgen Oklahoma.

Factory Fresh NS 1074, the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western heritage unit was recently cosmetically restored and mechanically overhauled. After more than a month in the paint booth, 1074 ... (more)

Just north of the Sandcut crossovers, BNSF 8551 brings up the rear of a Barstow to Pasco manifest, knocking off the last miles into Bakersfield.

The normal evening hotshot across Iowa rolls thru Bertram on the eastside of Cedar Rapids on the UP Clinton Sub. The train is over 70 miles into the evening trip from the eastside of the state to ... (more)

A Council Bluffs to Chicago drag freight passes thru Belle Plaine on the Clinton Sub. The crew is working between Boone and Clinton and will have work at Beverly Yard in Cedar Rapids. The train pa... (more)