A rare catch these days, IC 2462 leads 303's train out of town

In the modern PTC era, getting foreign power to lead right now was harder to do on the BNSF in spots thru mid-2020. This loaded wind mill train has a lone CN Dash 8 for power. The 6700 foot train ... (more)

A pair of new Conrail widecab GEs are on the east end of the IHB's Gibson Yard as they transition off the Kankakee Line. Tom Golden photo.

A pair of new Conrail widecab GEs are on the move west toward the IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.

Back in 1986 I was promoted to a Road Foreman's position based in Chicago for the NEW SOO LINE RR that now included the entire Milwaukee Road property.....since us old Milwaukee guy's basically to... (more)

IC 2465 & CN 9454 lead a 40-car CN 324 eastbound, on its way to St. Albans, Vermont.

Todays's Canadian National 324 rolls leisurely through farm pasture of the Richelieu River Valley.

Three warbonnet-clad GEs power a northbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight departing Kane, Wyoming, along the west shore of Bighorn Lake on October 12, 1997. Interestingly, all three have di... (more)

Union Pacific C40-8W #9379 (with SD60M's 6255 & 6311), in full dynamic braking, begins its slow descent down Cima Hill with a loaded coal train.

A pair of Canadian National locomotives lead eastbound CSX ethanol train K684 through Erie, Pennsylvania after holding at CP 89 for Q020 to pass. In the lead is C40-8W CN 2141, originally built as... (more)

In literally last light on this summer day, loaded ethanol K684 catches the last rays of sun light on the bridge with a pair of CN units. The lead CN is an Ex Santa Fe Dash 8W.

Led by Santa Fe GE C40-8W No. 840, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe manifest freight curves out of short Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on the crystal clear afternoon of February... (more)

At last light, a tanker train bound for the chemical coast traverses the bridge over the Mohawk River at Pattersonville, led by an ex-BNSF C40-8W which is now a part of Canadian National's roster.

Here on July 4th, CN Memphis, TN to Mobile, AL manifest train A48871 is seen crossing the CN/NS diamond in Hattiesburg, MS with an old ATSF Dash 8 on point. CN 2147 was built for the ATSF in April... (more)