After spending a good part of the day out of Wheeler, switching industries on the southeast side of Mosses Lake, Columbia Basin Railroad’s Wheeler to Warden freight passes milepost 153 between R... (more)

Burlington Northern EMD SD9 No. 6102 switches a cut of cars at the railroad’s Northtown Yard in September 1984. Looming above the locomotive in the background is the city of Minneapolis, Minneso... (more)

Columbia Basin Railroad’s southbound Connell turn is north of Bruce, Washington and is about to cross the Herman Road grade crossing on September 28, 2021. CBRW No. 608 is a former Montana Rail ... (more)

Columbia Basin Railroad’s turn to the BNSF connection at Connell has begun its return trip and is just clearing Moon Road grade crossing between Connell and Frischknecht, Washington, on the afte... (more)

A profile view of the classic EMD lines of Indiana Eastern Railroad SD9 No. 206 as it works the CSX interchange yard on the east side of Cottage Grove Indiana at South Stone Road. Having been buil... (more)

As a Columbia Basin Railroad freight departs Wheeler, Washington, it passes an old Northern Pacific water tank that is still located along the right-of-way of the CBRW on the afternoon of Septembe... (more)

The one shot that everyone wants on the IERR is of a train crossing the large trestle at Okeana, so with the SD9 leading, this one was a no-brainer. A horse grazing in the field below barely notic... (more)

Couldnt pass through the Upper Penninsula of Michigan without stopping in to check in on the Escanaa and Lake Superior's shops at Wells. Although this visit was different as I had the drone with m... (more)

A pair of vintage Burlington Northern EMD SD9s power a westbound welded rail train past the depot at Rochelle, Illinois, on the afternoon of April 10, 1996.

After working the CSX interchange for over an hour, IERR 206 has now crossed the CSX diamond and heads south past the IERR's office, a converted residence, in Cottage Grove.

With the C&O era code line still standing, this scene along the Indiana Eastern's former C&O of Indiana mainline at Milepost 44 on the south side of Cottage Grove is almost like something right ou... (more)

A battered and ancient C&O era crossbuck stands silent watch near the west end of Shandon Siding on the Indiana Eastern Railroad's former C&O of Indiana mainline at New Haven Road in Shandon, Ohio... (more)

Indiana Boxcar Corporation SDM 818 and Chesapeake & Indiana GP38-2 5152 are seen near the Co-Alliance Grain elevator. Built in April 1959 as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range SD9 172, back when 2-8-8-4... (more)

Several old EMD SD9's are parked at the ELS shop in Wells Michigan awaiting an uncertain future.

ELS 1221 keeps company with a former GATX Capital Corp. SD40-2 on a beautiful late summer day in Michigan.