The Norfolk Southern and the Dept. of Defense ran a nuclear waste special seen passing thru Shinrock, Ohio. 5/16/2020

Amid a Montana snowstorm, a westbound BNSF grain train heads for Spokane on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision between Noxon and Heron on February 6, 2021.

A frosty BNSF 7559 (ES44DC) sits in the bitter cold and fog on the siding at West Barr Lake as the BNSF Z train passes.

Empty grain train CN 875 has five vintage MGLX hoppers at the head end, with some new CN hoppers right behind. CN 2279 is up front and CN 3284 is mid-train, with empty potash cars behind the DPU.

A westbound loaded grain train grinds up the East slope of Bozeman Pass on MRL’s 2nd Subdivision

Four BNSF motors led by 4191 (Dash9) pull an autorack / mixed freight through the stretch between Castle Rock and Sedalia, Colorado.

BNSF 7137 (ES44DC) leads a freight through Castle Rock, Colorado on the Joint Line.

The daily local from Waterloo to Ft. Dodge heads up hill out of Cedar Falls and away from the partly frozen Cedar River. This job takes cars off of 337 and anything in Waterloo and head west with ... (more)

Defunneling the Funnel
BNSF’s second long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, is well underway. Steel cylinders that will support the bridge are being welded together as... (more)

The daily 338 from Waterloo to Kirk Yard dips thru the big hogback between Jesup and Independence on the CN Dubuque Sub. The train is hitting quite a few drifts since they left Waterloo. Around Be... (more)

Well the winter has finally gotten good! Snow and wind has pushed the drifts out to the tracks on the Waterloo and Dubuque Subs for CN. I believe lack of power and people has not allowed the CN to... (more)

An eastbound Oakland to Logistic Park stack train eases up to Belfast Rd west of Argyle. Fort Madison is in the normal congestion mode so the dispatcher is holding trains at Argyle for room. I... (more)

A lost stack train rolls thru the crossover at Argyle on the Marceline Sub in a winter wonderland. This train originated on the 30th at the Oakland Gateway, CA, and spent the last 6 days somewhere... (more)

A DC powered GEVO leads a matching set of Heritage 3's, at East Seligman, Arizona.

A Belen, NM to Denver, CO manifest train is tied down in the siding of Lynn, CO, along BNSF's Spanish Peaks Subdivision, as a summer thunder storm rages in the background. In 2019, the North/ Sout... (more)