The westbound Empire Builder emerges from adverse weather into the sunshine. To the comment: My best guess from sharpening other photos of this train is the F40 is #342, but I can'... (more)
To see this run again ...
The Hiawatha Service rolls around the curve by Cassidy Tire and into the north entrance of Chicago Union Station.
Unusual back-to-back, clean and freshly painted, Metra locomotives 214/215 push in to Chicago Union Station. The locomotives are back-to-back for a private car charter to be operated the next day,... (more)
An unusual train to start the day in Laramie.
Beginning its life as CNR 6762, living on as VIA 6762, and now providing life to other Grand Canyon Railway FPAs, this old veteran has changed paint, but has somehow always kept the same road numb... (more)
Four Amtrak paint schemes within view, plus a guest BNSF GP38-2.
Ouch. Amtrak 167 sustained a punch to the nose in a grade crossing accident in Auburn, IL, on October 10th. The southbound Amtrak Texas Eagle struck a grain truck loaded with corn at the ... (more)
The Huey P. Long Bridge looms over the Metairie Wal-Mart parking lot, as two UP trains inch by each other. From the other end: ... (more)
At just before 6pm, UP 1989 leads train #6 a little more than 2 hours late into Chicago Union Station ... this was fortunately timed, as the sun in the summer gets far enough north in the early ev... (more)
The view of the southwestern portion of the largest rail yard in the world.
Tracks still embargoed, but not abandoned ... a kernal of hope ... The trains that have seen this scene ...
DRGW 5508/5506 and an SP unit head downhill from Tehachapi into Tunnel #1 in the late afternoon.
Through the Loop, south/west bound toward Tehachapi and the Mojave Desert.
Down at Rocky, a westbound trackage rights BNSF train waits for Amtrak #5 and the Ski Train to clear before continuing uphill on the Moffat Route. This was taken as Amtrak #5 was clearing a loade... (more)
