Various CSX yard crews work the massive Rice Yard at Waycross, GA on a July Saturday afternoon.

The late afternoon of Memorial Day sees a Pasco to Everett manifest roll along the banks of Puget Sound as it approaches Sunnyside Beach and a southbound garbage train near Steilacoom.

A rather large K66 rolls through Rockford, IL. The train has just crossed Kishwaukee Street on its way to Davis Junction.

An empty coal train with Norfolk Southern power is seen snaking through West Bottoms in Kansas City.

Brown Eyed Susans were out in force for CPKC M28010 passing with former SD9043MAC #9115 leading. I'm glad CP re-built these orphan EMD's, providing much needed variety to their ubiquitous GE's.

CPKC C87100212 heads from Port Arthur to Corpus Christie with 98 loads of export petroleum coke. This run is much better than the prior shuttle within Port Arthur.

Beachball heritage P32AC-DM 208 leading the Friday only train 4835 to Poughkeepsie.

Recently converted from standard 50' to highcap 60's, Mexican Cerveza is riding shotgun on the MSALI.

Westbound 31 local with a heritage engine leading

UP 4419 and UP 3842 team up to lead a westbound string of autoracks out of IHB's Gibson Yard, directly into the setting sun during golden hour.

A pair of UP SD70Ms, led by UP 4419, trundles westbound along the IHB mainline out of Gibson Yard, seen here passing underneath the CP Columbia control point.

P42C 9700, a converted P42 into a cab car, leading northbound at Cold Spring.

No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)

Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.

The "Silver Meteor" is running late giving me an opportunity to take a shot in daylight.