With the official takeover date of March 1, 2025, I have been out trying to shoot the Iowa Northern as the CN makes changes to the railroad. Job changes came first in March, and now power changes ... (more)

A shortage of crew caused the IANR not to run a Butler to Manly job on Wednesday to position power for the normal job on Thursday. That meant the crew had to run north to Manly on Thursday. Here t... (more)

The Manly to Butler job rolls past the classic ex-Rock Island depot at Rockford on the Manly Sub. The AM departure from Manly allows for easy shooting of this depot again. They will flip back at B... (more)

This CN zebra GP40-2W has definitely seen better days since being delivered to the CN back in 1974.

A pair of CN GP40-2W's bring a local south through Iron Junction

Huron Central, HCRY GP40-2W 3012-3013, on the branch to the now closed paper mill at Espanola, Ontario. September 13, 2012. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

The Westbound Rocky Mountaineer Ducks Under The Signal Bridge At Piper.

RMRX GP40-2W 8014 leads P609's 12 car train down the main track at Barriere.

Destined for Kamloops and eventually Jasper/Banff, The Rocky Mountaineer heads onto the CPKC Page Sub near Matsqui.

RMRX GP40-2W 8015 leads P609's train onto the north track at Sumas Mountain.

RMRX GP40-2W 8015 and GP40-2LW 8012 lead a 17 car P610 east onto CPKC's Page Sub which will connect them to CPKC's Cascade Sub for a run east into the Fraser Canyon.

RMRX 8015 Highballs The Curve At Popkum.

RMRX 8014 leads its train west across the Columbia river in Revelstoke.

It’s about 02:30 in the morning as CN L545, the “Millsdale Oil Local” switches out Seneca in Lemont with a CN GP40-2W and a IC GP38-2 before heading back to Glenn Yard and call it a night af... (more)

Traversing scenic Thompson River Canyon, a 25-car Rocky Mountaineer Railtours passenger train approaches Ashcroft, British Columbia, on September 28, 2015.