My first visit to Denver showcased the look and feel of modern BN road power in the early 1980s, which consisted mostly of SD40-2s and U30C/C30-7s. A few cabless GEs are also lurking plus a few fi... (more)

Stranded. After record rain hit in June this year BNSF tracks both east and west of the Tate & Lyle chemical plant in western Duluth were washed out stranding 6 tank cars. Also washed out was the... (more)

A former Frisco GP38-2 with a new PTC brow leads Job 113 past the laker Lee A. Tregurtha as shipyard workers finishing painting its bow.

A number of these army vehicles were on the head end of this BNSF (MRL) westbound exiting the tunnel at the summit of Bozeman Pass.

Four F9s (an A-B-B-A set) are in the process of being scrapped near the location where they were destroyed in a run-away wreck that also resulted in 93 ore cars being cut-up. The wreck happended ... (more)

This 45-tonner was saved from scrapping by WGN and has been repainted for a lease stint on the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist railroad in Duluth. The industrial locomotive had worked at the A... (more)

D&NE 28 is reunited with its tender for the first time in months as the restoration of this former DM&IR 2-8-0 continues, with official steam-up runs occurring in June. A crew from the Lake Super... (more)

Railroad archeology courtesy of Mother Nature. BNSF's former NP "Shortline" mainline into Duluth hangs high the day after record rainfall blew out a culvert (seen in the distance). The old pilings... (more)

This former Milwaukee Road E9 is stuffed and mounted at a nice railroad park in Deer Lodge, just east of where the Milwaukee's final spike was driven on its Pacific Extension.

One of the favorite activities during National Train Day at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum was supervised hand car and motor car rides. Here a pair of young lads zip a former Missabe hand car p... (more)

An empty BNSF ore train passes by the Great Lakes Trader, which sports a nice ice mustache after its trip across Lake Superior.

With an air temp at -4F Erie Mining F9A 4211 leads DM&IR 193 and a train of empty BNSF steel hopper cars out of Rices Point. Who would have thought 4211 (or 193) would be powering an ore train, al... (more)

Marias Pass in known for heavy snow and my recent trip there didn't disappoint. I had shot the pass in spring, summer and fall but never winter. The Izaak Walton was a busy place with skiers takin... (more)

While railroad museums and tourist lines strive to faithfully recreate vintage scenes when operating photo charters, generally hotboxes are not part of that experience. This overheated journal on ... (more)

Some action at CN's ore dock 6 in Duluth as three light units are on the ore dock approach while three GEs led by 2104 cross over on BNSF track with ore cars for loading limestone at Hallett Dock.... (more)