350 heads by the Cary Depot and closes in on CSX rails at Fetner on a nice fall morning.

The hot Stockton, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z-train waste no time making track speed up the more than 2% grade of Tehachapi Pass as it snakes through the curves of Allard. This train had to stopped... (more)

Eastbound headed to Toronto

Union Pacific train MGRRV has crested Donner Summit and is now working downhill as it passes through Soda Springs.

After yarding the previous day's 350, 351 lite power heads west to Pomona Yard as they reenter NS at Fetner.

BNSF 8322 along with a pair of NS units, one being the 4005, lead an eastbound Q train at Walker.

A westbound manifest is coming off the Missouri River bridge near Florissant, Missouri.

Norfork Southern train U44 is coming into Norton, Virginia on the former Interstate Railroad. The train is running from the yard at Andover, Virginia to Swords Creek, Virginia with empty covered ... (more)

Framed by the last stubborn leaves this work train is easing forward dropping the last stick of welded rail for the inside of the curve at MP 403. I guess we’ll see the rail gang in a few weeks... (more)

Westbound Grainer with BNSF ES44DC no. 7561 leading, rounds along the Flathead River on the Hi Line Subdivision east of Belton.

Norfork Southern train U44 is stopped in downtown Appalachhia, Virginia after backing out of the main part of Andover Yard. The train has backed around one leg of the wye in Appalachia and will so... (more)

A westbound grain train is stopped short of the crossover at MP 109.6 to wait its turn. The double track is down to single track due to parked east bounds in need of crews.

Eastbound manifest freight approaches Riverbank Ca.

“Riderless Horse”
Maybe you know it as “Mexico”, or “Tuscarora”, or “SIP 148.7”, or “Book’s Century Farm”, or “Book’s Crossing”, or simply “Book’s”. But... (more)

BNSF 7311 (ES44DC) leads an oil can train around the corner at Crescent, Colorado during a heavy winter storm.