A Montana Rail link ballast train is slowly filled at the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. The railroad uses the former Butte main line now called the Spire Rock Industrial Tr... (more)
Copper Basin Railway’s OT-1 ore shuttle train is loading ore at Asarco’s massive Ray copper mine in a view from the cab of CBRY EMD GP39 No. 505 on April 20, 2017. On the left are unique hoppe... (more)
Hallett Dock locomotive 1251 is celebrating her 62nd birthday this year. Built in 1960 for Canadian Pacific, she now lives her life switching limestone cars for Canadian National's operation in Du... (more)
An empty rock train passes the Alaska Railroad downtown station after a crew change.
With the construction season well under way, the small Milford-Bennington Railroad comes back to life. Normally dormant in Winter, the sole purpose of this little railroad is run stone from a quar... (more)
A Red and Yellow C30-7 leads a westbound pig train past the cement plant at Nelson AZ on a fall day in 1989. this shot was taken from my friends airplane. This is the Seligman west Sub. note the... (more)
"Oldschool Florida East Coast" CEMX GP9 661 shoves a cut of rock cars out of the Cemex facility in Medley, FL during sunset. The 661 was built in November of 1954 for the Flo... (more)
An empty ballast train shoves west to clear the crossing before loading up.
"MRL Stone Extra at Rocky Creek Farm" Montana Rail Link's only two active EMD SD45s, 355 & 346, lead a Stone Extra east past the Rocky Creek Farm Access Road on the MRL 2nd Subdi... (more)
Southbound rock train at Lake Texoma
The Very First Light in the Royal Gorge From the rim at Temple Canyon moments after sun up and in the right time for the morning Rock Train to Drennen the colors of the Arkansa... (more)
EE 17 was built for the CP back in 1955 as a SW900. Today in 2020 it is still actively earning it’s keep on the Ellis & Eastern in South Dakota. The SW9 was found here working at Concrete Materi... (more)
A pair of Dash 9's sit idle at the quarry waiting for another load of rock.
EE 17, a neat SW900, works the Concrete Materials plant on the northwest side of Sioux Falls.
Sand business on the FWWR Railroad shut down due to downturn economy and everyone lost their jobs at Vista Sand.