SP merger unit 9207 leads the Memphis-Blue Streak past the signals at Wilmot approaching Tucson on a sunny clear afternoon.
In an incredibly lucky feat of timing, a pair of fisherman both reel in bass at the same time as Buffalo & Pittsburgh X-COAL rolls over the Ormsby Fill in Backus, Pennsylvania. As the train approa... (more)
A heavy westbound Modoc Line train enters the farmlands of the Klamath Basin near Copic.
A westbound manifest rolls through the Willamette Valley in late summer 1996. Union Pacific was four days away.
An eastbound cab hop rolls along the Siskiyou Line between Rogue River and Grants Pass.
A lumber drag from the Rogue Valley heads west on the Siskiyou Line.
Coal and corn. Apparently still a 20-cylinder, this leaser has picked up a train of empties from INRD at Beehunter and is running SB on trackage rights. They will soon gain home rails at the jun... (more)
The elements all lined up for a spectacular show of steam on the CN U717 loaded taconite pellet train as it departed Fairlane Pellet Plant on the way to Proctor. The right negative degree tempera... (more)
A taconite pellet train is being unloaded on the famous Duluth Missabe & Iron Range Railroad's Dock 6 in Duluth, MN. As the sun rises at 0700 hrs, the train catches enough light to provide this m... (more)
PRLX 2832 rounds a curve into McDade. Debris from the previous week's ice storm is visible in the foreground.
PRLX 2832 parallels Old McDade Road just outside of Butler
The sun peeks out to illuminate PRLX 2832 as a light power move arrives in Elgin on an otherwise grey day.
One of two rare SD45T-2 "tunnel motors" on the Austin Western passes the vintage cantilever style grade crossing that protects FM 696 in Butler.
An eastbound Southern Pacific train on the Modoc Line awaits a signal to enter Union Pacific's ex-Western Pacific mainline.
Led by a tunnel motor painted for the SPSF merger, a lumber drag begins the climb out of the Rogue Valley on the Siskiyou Line.