11 EMD SD-90MACs sit in the West Yard awaiting their rebuild on a beautiful fall day.

Portal to Portal

A 7200 ft long train of mixed manifest and containers off the barge in Whittier is on the move to Anchorage behind consecutively numbered MACs. The heavy train ... (more)

BNSF 9839 & 9023 with westbound empties.

Conrail meets Southern! NS 7203, a former Conrail SD80MAC built in January 1996 as No. 4105, leads Rutherford, PA - Atlanta, GA intermodal train 213 under the old Southern Railway intermediate sig... (more)

A shot I have long tried to capture finally came together as I followed a coal train south from Anchorage on a very nice summer's eve. It is bitter sweet however as this is likely to be the last e... (more)

This shot of the 181S may turn out to be the very last export coal train on the Alaska Railroad. With the soft coal market this will be the last train needed to fill the coal ship at Seward. Curre... (more)

A former TFM SD70MAC leads CSX Q106 through downtown Indianapolis, past the home of the Indianapolis Colts. The two tracks at right are all that remain in service at the once-sprawling Indianapol... (more)

Only 30 domestic SD80MAC's were produced and Conrail got them all. Class unit #4100 is the only one I photographed, here heading westbound solo with a TV train west of Toledo.

Overnight rains have left puddles of water under the Richard Creek Viaduct, more commonly called Tulip Trestle, as two red SD90MACs pull Indiana Rail Road's daily SAHW freight over the impressive ... (more)

A northbound empty coal train is silhouetted by a stormy sunrise south of Bill, Wyoming, where coal and oil mix, and the antelope and jack rabbit population far exceeds humans. The SD70MAC is serv... (more)

Somewhere east of Forsyth, 9513 heads west into the last rays of the setting sun.

An Indiana Railroad coal train is being loaded at Peabody Energy's Bear Run coal mine located near Dugger, IN. In the background is a Bucyrus-Erie 2750W dragline from Peabody Energy's former Hawth... (more)

Rare NS power leads a CSX ethanol train from Canadian Pacific in Canada down in Georgia. Pretty sweet.

The empty coal train has some empty flats from Seward at the front of the train as they skirt Turnagain Arm and the numerous waterfalls en-route to Anchorage and the start of the next cycle.

Due to a boiler tube failure on the 844 that lead to precautionary measures on the 3985, Union Pacific SD9043MAC No. 8070 was assigned to assist a short steam special through Echo Canyon, returnin... (more)