In a break between downpours, the headlights of a UP intermodal reflect off the moist interior of Tunnel #19 on it's trek through Soledad Canyon.

MNOEWB 21 with YAV10 21 yard crew handling the New Orleans transfer, crossing the Huey P Long Bridge... I'm pretty sure it's the steepest railraod grade in Louisiana and also the highest railroad ... (more)

NS 24E holds the main, flipping on the lights to roll by Amtrak #19, The Crescent, on a gloomy morning. Anyone who knows me understands I do not photograph in cloudy conditions, but this photo en... (more)

A scene straight out of an Irish Tourism Brochure... except for the Conrail C40-8 with 54 Roadrailers in tow. That cow was *almost* as excited as I was.

Georgia Northeastern shoves 4 coil steel loads to Pacesetter Steel Service, which has begun receiving large amounts of sheet metal by rail after a long hiatus. The 4631 is an ex-Grand Trunk Weste... (more)

Runthrough UP ILBNS takes the siding at Villa Rica, passing train 11A with the Virginian Heritage leading.

Hard to believe the two wood frame grain elevators are still standing, let alone in service (although not shipping rail). Manitoba doesn't have anything on the grain elevators of Southwest Minnes... (more)

The most impressive sight on the Georgia Central is their bi-monthly coal train to SP Newsprint Mill in Dublin. This train has a rare leader, not because it is a U23B... but because it is the onl... (more)

The Southern Heritage Unit passes under the wooden bridge east of Central, SC. This is my fifteenth Heritage capture, Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: GE ES44AC
Location: Central, South Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: NS 8099
Train ID: NS 213-11
Photo Date: April 12, 2014

I've never been superstitious and Friday the 13th was damn lucky, catching my first Champion, leading the NS Track Geometry train of all things.

In a fairly rare meet, the southbound Dakota & Iowa Rock Train meets BNSF grain train G CATKAL9 07. As soon as the rock train passes & releases his warrant, this grain will start it's journey fro... (more)

Hower Tower at high noon. 27W with a UP leader is waiting on 187 to clear ahead, 119 is coming around the southwest wye and CSX A745 is waiting for a clear track in Tilford Yard. In the backgrou... (more)

An empty South Carolina Public Service Authority coal train from Cross, SC snakes through the Appalachian Foothills as it heads back to Evansville, IN for loading on the Evansville Western RR.

Just after sunrise, Q597 crosses the approach to the Ohio River Bridge on the Henderson Subdivision. With recent heavy rains in the area, it is evident why the approach is a bridge rather than a ... (more)

An Uncle Sam Special with support equipment (Tractors & Dump Trucks) heads for the port while NS 737-07 heads north on parallel trackage.