Canadian Pacific locomotives pull today’s U844 (an extra L844) up to the highest point on the former Western Railway of Alabama mainline in Opelika. This handoff train from the CPKC to CSX via ... (more)

Bright Red on a Gloomy Morning | Climbing the grade out of Watts, OK, a northbound CPKC train glides through an s-curve just south of Siloam Springs, AR on the gloomy morning of Sunday, May... (more)

CP 8900 is about to cross the continental divide after a long climb from Field.

Engineer Jon Angeles is at the helm of Buffalo-Toronto train no.237 at Canyon Road on the Galt Sub during a heavy snowfall.

Twilight Headlights | As night sets in over southwestern Missouri near the town of Asbury on a warm Sunday, May 11, 2025 evening, a southbound CPKC train rolls through farmland at the north... (more)

Black Gold At Dusk | Southbound CPKC crude oil train 576 cruises into the small town of Asbury, MO just after sunset on the warm evening of Sunday, May 11, 2025.

After a 4 hour wait in the siding at Carara due to down trees from storms the night before, CSX Train B244-04 is back on its northbound journey as they pass through Saint Ives, AL. With CP SD70ACu... (more)

A pair of CP SD60's lead ballast loads east on the NS Chicago Line.

11,330 feet of empty JCH rolls down towards Lakeland & Winston with one of the CP heritage units leading in true CP style. There is a DPU about halfway back, 2 miles of train. Of course, at one ... (more)

A PREDICTION IN TO THE FUTURE CSX B218 winds their way through Howell Wye in Atlanta heading south with CP and KCS power. This was before it was announced that these 2 Class 1s (at the ti... (more)

Resting in the Yard. This manifest train rests in Nahant Yard, waiting to depart for its next destination.

CP 7021, CPKC's "Army Arid" commemorative SD70ACU, arrives in Franklin Park, IL with train 3-231 from Canada, nearing its journey's completion at Bensenville Yard just ahead.

Ready to Go. This clean looking SD40-3 appears ready to go as it sits in Nahant Yard.

The Spencer to Mason City local rolls along between Britt and Garner. This job will take 12 hours to get the train over the 100 miles. I was surprised the train had 82 cars coming back to Mason. T... (more)

One can see the old grade for the branch line that ran from Waukon Junction out to Waukon, IA. That line was built in 1877 as a 23-mile narrow-gauge branch. In 1880 the MILW acquired the line from... (more)