Volcanic Landscape: With the sun low in the sky, one of BNSF's seemingly never-ending intermodal train, races West towards LA's Pacific ports. Flagstaff's geography is dominated by many cin... (more)

Eagle Power: On a gloomy desert day, Arizona Central's creatively painted F units brighten up the day. Business is good for this Arizona shortline, and their freight power rests in the yard... (more)

ALCo's In The Desert: Just outside of Holbrook, and already up to track speed, 2 of Apache Railways fleet of ALCo's cruise through the Northern desert with a train for Snowflake. Apache doe... (more)

ALCo's In The Desert: With a winter storm rolling in, a pair of Apache ALCo products hustle their train south to Snowflake. The weather can change quickly in the high desert, what was once ... (more)

ALCo's In The Desert: Getting close to home, run time over the 38 mile shortline is about an hour and a half with a track speed of 25 MPH. The train comes over a short grade, no match for A... (more)

ALCo's In The Desert: After picking up a pretty sizable train train at Holbrook from the BNSF, two of Apache's well maintained depart for Snowflake. Wanting to get home, the engineer gets a... (more)

ALCo's In The Desert: After picking up a pretty sizable train train at Holbrook from the BNSF, a couple of sharp looking ALCo products hustle the train at track speed through the beautiful ... (more)

North Shore Return: After a day trip to Duluth and Two Harbors, the wife and I were returning home when I stumbled across the North Shore Scenic heading back to Duluth. This was a weekday, ... (more)

Out of the Darkness: After waiting almost 45 minutes for a BNSF track gang to clear their track-and-time, UP 4014 slowly emerges from the St. Paul tunnels on main track 2. They will pull th... (more)

UP 4014 is a long way from home rails here, using UP trackage rights on the BNSF, nee CNW rights on the BN. Furthermore, the Nemadji River bridge seen here is on the former SOO Line Danbury Sub. T... (more)

Highball!: After undoubtedly getting a diverging clear at Coon Creek, Ed cracks the throttle on UP 4014 for the last 20 or so miles to the Twin Cities. The train is coming off the BNSF Hink... (more)

Goodnight Big Boy: After a long day sprinting across Iowa and Southern Minnesota, UP 4014 is tucked away for the night at SPUD underneath the St. Paul skyline. Taken while off duty, wearing... (more)

Not So Big Now, Are Ya?: Most photos of the Big Boy do a great job of showing just how massive the locomotive is. I wanted to do just the opposite here; the Sandstone bridge is an impressiv... (more)

The Royal Canadian: Brightening up a somewhat dreary day, CP 1401 leads the Royal Canadian into the yard track at Cottage Grove. The big brass got off the train at Humboldt Yard, and this i... (more)

The Royal Canadian: Brightening up a somewhat dreary day, CP 1401 leads the Royal Canadian into the yard track at Cottage Grove. The big brass got off the train at Humboldt Yard, and this i... (more)