24 hours a day Seven minutes before the 14th of June, the just on-duty crewman of this eastbound UP Manifest prepares to make cut so that the train can go pick up a car from north of the ya... (more)

Volunteers Dave Marshall (left) and Doug Butzow of the Monticello Railway Museum's Steam Shop work on the strap for an air tank. Monticello is currently restoring Southern Railway 2-8-0 no. 401, w... (more)

UP 3897 accelerates into the curve and past the bike racks at Elmhurst Station as it exits Proviso yard.

A crossbuck on the Pana Sub stands tall against a beautiful evening sky, which goes from orange to yellow to blue to purple.

Pace Shot Toward the end of the day, CSXT 7603 with a grain extra speeds toward Crawfordsville and Ames interlocking where it will take the connection toward Indianapolis. Thanks to ... (more)

AMTK 181 flies westbound with either the California Zephyr or the Southwest Chief through Highlands, where the fall colors are only just starting to develop.

No orange on this engine! A beautiful looking warbonnet(albeit wearing BNSF markings) heads through the curve relatively slow, due to the MOW crew sitting on the siding just to the left of the pho... (more)

Passengers board the 1316 bound for Chicago on this cool Spring Break week.

Beating the clouds at their own game, this shot turned out far better than it would have with sun. Under threatening skies, the southbound Saluki makes its way into Rantoul next to some MOW... (more)

An empty coal train heads west on the former MoPac White River Line. Named after RR manager William Cotter, Cotter was a RR boomtown that later busted upon the closing of its roundhouse.Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: Cotter, Arkansas, USA
Locomotive #: UP 6851
Train ID: None
Photo Date: June 12, 2006

West of Calender Curve, this westbound manifest was rather oddly arranged. Normal freight cars(not sure if they were loaded or unloaded), then baretables, then more typical ones(also unsure as to ... (more)

ICE 114 heads SB through Hampton near Lighthouse Ends.

Best time for a train to stop, ever. With 5 days left of true IC&E operations, the rush is on to capture the last days of the IC&E. Here at Sabula, Iowa, there was 7-8 railfans all capturing this ... (more)

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet... A BNSF stacker works its way back east in the pouring rain while running wrong main due to trackwork at Edelstein.

A survivior from the BN leads an empty coal train westbound through Downers Grove Main Street.