MRL's Day Gas heads West along the Clark Fork River with a small train and two immaculate SD40-2XR's leading the charge.

Crickets and birds chirp, thunder rumbles to the South, while AC traction motor whine and a Canadian tuned Nathan 3-chime scream disrupt serenity in the small town of Bowbells, during an incredibl... (more)

Chargin' the Air! The reverser is centered, air is set, and the throttle is in Run 6, as two GEVO's howl trying to pump the 140 car empty coal train back up after switching. Photo taken wit... (more)

Flanges squeal and dynamic brakes howl off the freshly fallen snow while three GE's (in 2x1 formation) lead loaded auto racks from Gibson, Indiana (IHB) to Milpitas, California glide down Donner P... (more)

Totally dude! With the beach and palm trees behind, the Santa Cruz Local makes a run down the Boardwalk on a scorching hot July afternoon. The boardwalk doesn't see much action anymore frei... (more)

Opened on November 30, 1867, after two years of blasting, Tunnel 6 at Donner Pass was used continuously for 130 years by the trains of the Central Pacific, and Southern Pacific. The Chinese worked... (more)

A famous shot indeed, the California Zephyr in 2008 at the famous Pulga trestle... Amtrak #5 has gone off the advertised and is detouring due to Donner Pass trackwork via the Feather River Canyon.

Drop off! The DPU of a Wastbound stack train drops off the face of the Earth and descends the 2.2% grade down the La Grande Sub at Kamela.

Looking more like the mid 1990's, three Warbonnets rumble through Kingman Canyon on a stunning Spring morning.

You never know what you're going to get on the Warm Springs Local.... BNSF 110 and BNSF 2469 lead a short 5-car Warm Springs Local up the Square under a mucky January afternoon. Canon Rebel XS.

MRL in North Dakota! 60 cylinders of leased EMD goodness screams out of the White Earth Valley with the Minot-bound GREX slot train and leans into "Whiskey Curve", where decades ago, a whis... (more)

Cecil 2. Engineer, supervisor, fellow co-worker, and RP contributor Drew Mitchem eases his 136 car coal train to a stop. With temps in the teens and 4 inches of snow on the ground, the unlo... (more)

Canadian Zephyr, eh? Due to mechanical issues in Nevada, the UP added an extra locomotive to the train in Sparks. Usually, it'd be a dirty GEVO, but, tonight, we had a visitor. CP 9631 is a... (more)

An overhead view of the diesel racks in Richmond. As you can tell, you don't get a big variety of power, it's either a SD40-2, a hybrid thingy, or a Dash 9. Yay.

End of the line. At the end of BNSF's Niobe Subdivision in Northgate, ND is the Boundary Line. It's not the boundary to Montana or Minnesota; but the International Border between the USA... (more)