IC power gets a 30mph pull on a unit train of empty hoppers rolling up out of the Mississippi valley at Rockdale in Dubuque. I've always loved shooting at this location dating back to the CC&P da... (more)

With less than a month left before becoming part of the Watco family, Wisconsin & Southern's Prairie turn nears the Wisconsin River Valley.

The California Zephyr is minutes from it's stop at Galesburg rolling through Cameron. RP.net contributor Tom McNair and protoge 14-year old Kane McNair Jacobs get the shot trackside.

A flared rent-a-wreck has 283's train on the roll after waiting for Amtrak to pass on main one. He'll be talked by the signal 2-1 ahead at Tamarack x-overs, traffic is stacked up on this Thanksgi... (more)

Amtrak is running at restricted speed on main one after passing the crossovers known as Tamarack. This was part of a six-train traffic jam due to problems with power switches.

The WSOR inspection train with VIP's touring the newly rehabbed Madison sub pass some lingering colors in McFarland.

T6 heads to Janesville from Madison over newly laid welded rail. Speeds have been upped from 10 to 30mph through here.

The WSOR business train, running with the A-B-A set of executive power and full compliment of business cars, makes a deadhead move to Madison in the last light of the day. It's being positioned f... (more)

UP coal loads are cresting the hill at Oxford but the horses are more interested in the guy with the camera.

In a midst of several trains the dispatcher had to thread across the rails on this Friday afternoon, including a pair of long-distance passenger trains, the lowly patrol finds some room to roam re... (more)

The Empire Builder has just passed the x-overs known as Tamarack and is five miles from a station stop in Columbus.

In attractive bumblebee colors, the Grand Elk moves southward on the old Conrail Kalamazoo Secondary approaching CP Park with Monday's work. Conrail upgraded this former Lake Shore & Michigan Sou... (more)

The westward Empire Builder is right on time departing Columbus on a fine Sunday afternoon in October.

The Empire Builder rolls eastward about 148 miles from it's journey's end at Union Station in Chicago. She's running about 2 hours down.

My grandson's football game had ended on a perfect Saturday midday, when I flipped on the scanner and heard of an approaching train. Time to jump into a phonebooth and slip into my "S" costume (S... (more)