Looking like a mini-Hiawatha where the Burlington Twin Zephyrs once ran, a private charter train heads east along the Missisisippi River at Maiden Rock en route from St. Paul to Rock Island, Ill.

The last operational Milwaukee Road Skytop lounge observation is reflected in rainwater at the Amtrak Station. The next day the car will depart on a charter train to Rock Island, Ill.

Viewed from high on the Mississippi River bluffs, an eastbound moves along former Burlington Route rails between Prescott and Diamond Bluff behind new ES44DC 7521.

Notified by Dave Schauer, I was able to catch this southbound ore train with a Ferromex unit trailing about to pass through Cambridge, Minn.

A photo freight from the Indiana Transportation Museum makes it way down the streets of Noblesville, stopping every few feet so photographers can get different angles.

A Bloomer Line grain empty with three geeps heads north from Risk, Ill. to loading at Cullom, Ill.

A bright orange Indiana Harbor Belt GP40-2 heads up a westbound approaching the tower and UP crossing at Dolton.

There's a cold snow/rain mix falling, but that doesn't stop the photographers at this night session at the Indiana Transportation Museum. Restored NKP GP7 426 and an NKP caboose pose in front of t... (more)

Peoria & Western's gleaming FP9s head west on glorious sunny spring day.

It looks like a scene from the 1960s, but its really a photo freight on the Whitewater Valley Railroad. It's an old NYC branch, so this is likely what things looked like in the "good old days."

Amtrak's southbound Hoosier State has left the depot and passes through the semaphores at Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Amtrak's westbound Cardinal splits the old Monon semaphores at South Romney, Indiana.

Seven (count 'em!) GP9s bring a D&I detour over the BNSF bridge at Corson. A washout on the D&I's line forced the train to detour over BNSF rails with the old Geeps from Sioux Falls to Sioux City,... (more)

The Great Race - sort of. CP train 738 outpaces train 286 on the BNSF double track in Newport. Train 286, on the left in the photo, caught up and passed 738 since it had to wait for a westbound in... (more)

CP 2816 rolls along the Mississippi River with a special for the Milwaukee Road Historical Association which operated from Minneapolis to La Crescent, Minn., and return.