The elusive Thermal Belt Railway has just dropped a car off at the CSX interchange, and is headed back to the engine track to tie up.

Slinking through Idaho Forest
The Pend Oreille Valley Railroad turn to Sandpoint stops on the way east at Laclede, Idaho, to pick up a lumber load from Idaho Forest Group’s sawmill on... (more)

A break in the light rain that has been falling for hours allowed time to photograph these four Ohio Central engines at the diesel service area in Youngstown, Ohio.

Casting a reflection in a rain puddle, an eastbound Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight approaches Dover, Idaho, on the morning of October 1, 2021. This train is operating on the former Great Nor... (more)

It's a cold and quiet evening in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania as the Pittsburgh and Ohio Central 1711 sits next to the sanding tower. To the right is the Central Railroad Company of Indiana CIND 23... (more)

On October 1, 2021, the westbound Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight passes through Laclede, Idaho. POVA operates this portion of the former Great Northern main line between Newport and Sandpoin... (more)

A westbound Iowa Interstate Railroad freight clatters over the Santa Fe main line at Joliet Union Station on the afternoon of February 22, 1989. Iowa Interstate was formed on November 2, 1984, to ... (more)

Amid early autumn color, the westbound Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight heads toward Laclede, Idaho, along the Pend Oreille River on October 1, 2021. POVA operates this portion of the former G... (more)

After J780 returned from Butlerville, the Madison Railroad worked the yard in North Vernon.

An eastbound Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight, operating on the former Great Northern/BN Newport to Sandpoint line, smokes it up as it approaches the U.S. Highway 2 overpass at Dover, Idaho, o... (more)

EE 37 leads a train of aggregate East.

A colorful lashup at Risk Junction as BLOL 7591, LTEX 3802 and 3801 spend the night at Risk Junction after being tied down on the way to Gibson City on a frigid cold night. I ended up getting mino... (more)

Army locomotive 1880 "gets in your face" as it rounds the bend with a short work train including caboose.

Engineer SFC Elm looks back over his train as it rolls past the Pines Golf Course on its way to the range with a work train.

The daily Chicago-to-KC freight rolls through what's left of the ex-IC yard just after meeting KC-2 (KC to Chicago). In a few minutes, at a spot called Brickyard, the train will curve onto a form... (more)