CP SD40-2 6043, KCS SD70MAC 3919, and CP GP20C-ECO 2225 pull a 65 car loaded Herzog ballast train (+ 2 panel cars) up the grade at Hemlo and over the wayside inspection detector at mileage 39.5 of... (more)

A trio of EMD's provide the sounds in eighth notch climbing Neys Hill with a loaded ballast train.

CP SD40-2 6043, KCS SD70MAC 3919, and CP GP20C-ECO 2259 hustle a loaded 65 car Herzog ballast train across the Heron Bay Subdivision. Here they are in TN8 climbing Hemlo Hill at Cache Lake.

CPKC spray train is approaching the EXO Dorval Station with a SD40-2 in the modern CP scheme.

CP 6043 takes control of a continuous welded rail train as it thunders north by the Milwaukee Road era interlocking tower in Rondout, Illinois. The rebuilt SD40-3 is about to cross the former EJ&E... (more)

CPs 8WWA ballast train rumbles over the wooden Crawfish River bridge on a cold and windy spring afternoon. Todays train sports a trio of six-axle EMDs.

CPs 8WWA ballast train follows closely behind another freight train, seen here slicing through the rolling hills of central Wisconsin.

With 50-60 loads of ballast fresh from the pit in Waterloo, CPs 8WWA ballast train crawls over the Crawfish River with two rebuilt SD40s and a SD30C for power. The matching red pops alongside the ... (more)

2CWR rounds Lake Isabelle in Hastings shortly after crossing over the Mississippi River.

Two SD40-2s approach Lake City with a loaded continuous welded rail train.

Couple old veterans head up this loaded rail train CWR-19 as they make their way north on the Marquette Sub. The train is seen here a few miles outside of LaCrescent. At LaCrescent they will get o... (more)

2 repaint EMDs hide out the small snow storm on the North end of Nahant. 6043 and 4420 would be used for RCL job after the snow passed.

A beautiful Saturday morning finds a fisherman out on the credit river going about his day as the weed sprayer train rolls on by at 25 MPH with a veteran leader doing the honors.

After being dropped off by CWR-19 a crew will be ordered up later on to empty out this ballast train a few hundred feet ahead.

A boring day for this crew, slowly pull ahead as the excavator near (top left) empties this GREX ballast train. Then shove back and tie up.