The Southwest Chief cruises west at track speed over the bridge at Media, IL on the Chilli Sub.

A 70ACe leads northbound empties on the CC sub as they thread the needles eye or tunnel 15.

An old GP30 converted to a slug leads a local through the interlocking at NJ Cabin and under a 4 track C&O signal bridge.

In the late afternoon sun we catch a well timed meet with a westbound grain train and an eastbound stack train slowly climbing the grade toward Mountainair.

Elkhart bound manifest train 365 gets back underway after going into emergency at CP 466, just west of LaPorte, IN.

It's almost 1 in the afternoon but the aperture is set at F-dark on this gloomiest of gloomy winter days in Northern Indiana. The snows of a week ago have melted and after around 2 plus days of r... (more)

A 4 pack of GE's lug a colorful stack train up the grade in nice late afternoon light a couple miles west of Mountainair, NM on the Clovis Sub.

With a GE on each end, a stack train climbs through the upper Feather River Canyon near Cromberg.

Two kids take a short break from fishing to watch the DPU's on a northbound coal train rumble through Palmer Lake on an overcast afternoon.

A Wisconsin Central SD45 leads stacks toward the summit of Edelstein hill.

Running west on the normally eastbound main, a mostly bare table train navigates Kingman Canyon.

Behind one of NS's finest, the NKP 765 heads west along familiar territory of the Chicago District, headed for North Judson, IN to run a series of special excursions.

Eastbound manifest Q324 slowly works past a work gang replacing rail on track 2 of the Garrett Sub.

4 units head up a unit corn syrup train westbound through the valley between Elmer and Ethel, MO on the Marceline Sub.