A trio of heritage 1 EMD's lead a short 351 local eastbound near St. Francis, TX

3 ex Illinois Terminal SD-39s work an Eastbound for their new owner. Guilford acquired these units from Norfolk Southern. The Canisteo River is very calm, creating a nice reflection in the river.

MN&S 41 heads 783 and a 38 car train 910 at Trout Lake. The MN&S merger brought a little color and a few new models to the Soo in the early 80's. Soon to follow would be the Milwaukee Road merger,... (more)

A sure sign of spring is the start of Dakota & Iowa operating rock trains to support construction projects. Here a loaded train creeps through the BNSF yard in downtown Sioux Falls on a nice earl... (more)

An ATSF SD39 with slug switches a train in Barstow yard. It wears the short lived Kodachrome paint scheme in anticipation of the merger with SP, which eventually didn't happen. This was also near ... (more)

On my very first trip to visit the Santa Fe Railway, I arrived at Flagstaff just in time to catch this westbound train weaving through the ponderosa pine with an interesting power consist on the h... (more)

MN&S 40 leads Soo 741 and train 909 west at Gilchrist.

Having spotted the northbound Anaheim Hauler from the I-5 after picking up my car from my friend's Shell in Orange, CA, I managed to catch up to the Hauler at Artesia Blvd. in La Mirada for this s... (more)

Two old EMD's are in charge of this stack train through the small western Minnesota town of Hawley. Hearing and seeing these two made the 100 mile trip well worth it.

The only two Soo SD39's, 6240,6241 start west out of St. Paul yard heading a transfer across town to BN's Northtown yard. In the late 80's early 90's these two ex MN&S units could be found often o... (more)

An always welcome pair of six-axles lead NMED at Wells Beach.

D&I is providing storage for a unit train set of coal hoppers on its new passing siding at Chatsworth. During the Christmas 2009 snowstorm that dumped up to 20 inches these cars provided a wind b... (more)

The loading of BNSF shuttle grain trains at Beresford, SD, on the D&I was once common but now happens just a few times a year. Here one is just arriving North Sioux City where it will be interc... (more)

MN&S 40, Soo 741 on #909 with 48 cars about to pass under the US-2 overpass just east of Gould City.