Empty grain rolls up the Hi-line just east of West Glacier, Montana, late in the day. The train is running on approaches, and will slide in the next siding. He will roll around two westbounds, and... (more)

CSX Q606 has met sunset at Henderson Point, Mississippi, as the waves lap up onto the shore from the Gulf of Mexico. Fair weather and following seas dominated the day with the exception of this si... (more)

CSX Q520 rumbles off the Biloxi Back Bay Bridge as they land on the Ocean Springs side of things. Sunset has just transpired and the night is moving in. What a way to send daylight off with this ... (more)

KCS Manifest Freight CXSH from New Orleans to Shreveport, LA, is seen here at sunrise descending the Huey P Long Bridge superstructure into Lobdell, Louisiana. A lucky pick-up of a track warrant f... (more)

CSX Q026 outraces a tornadic mesocyclone in the town of Rebecca, Georgia. Thanks to Samuel Latham for the hospitality this past week! I had a blast... It was also fun chasing this and the rocket b... (more)

KCS B-KCLR has just stopped in the small town of Ashdown, Arkansas, to let a few people off, and is now floating along at 60mph leaving town. The combined KCS and CP business train was in the midd... (more)

Before a full day of chasing trains on CSX's Tallahassee Subdivision I was greeted to this sunrise at Douglas City... Breathtaking.... Absolutely Breathtaking.

KCS 1 Rich Mountain, Arkansas. We are deep in the Ouachita Mountain range as KCS 1, and the combination CPKC business train roar up the famed Rich Mountain grade on a moody morning. The southbo... (more)

CSX M735-30 rounds the curve on the CSX P&A sub into Pensacola with the last true road train that will ever operate for CSX on the line. YN2 AC4400 395 made a great leader, and the clouds held off... (more)

Golden Hour on the Gulf. CSX Manifest freight Q601 is seen in beautiful golden hour lighting as they cruise across the massive CSX Bay Saint Louis bridge. The bridge measures right at two mile... (more)

Creech, an Agonizing Wait, and a stellar result. After chasing C633 out to Loyall we heard them get an EC-1 to operate up to Creech on the former L&N Merna spur just south of Harlan, Kentucky, in ... (more)

Natural Tunnel... A place that has been on my shot list for years is Natural Tunnel. Located in Duffield, Virginia, this tunnel was mostly carved by Stock Creek. The railroad had to carve through ... (more)

When you begin meeting trains in New Orleans at one pm, and don't escape the confines of UP and CN at their various snared junctions, you tend to end up much later out of town than you thought. Su... (more)

Sitting a spell in the siding is ID coal run E248-31... They are getting the same first class view of the sunset God painted last night across the fields of rural Alabama. Just a great way to spen... (more)

This will never happen again..... P960 the Return to Service Inspection Train glides along the Pensacola Bay shore. This is the first time in 11 years that Amtrak has ran along this route. The ro... (more)