The end of the train. The end of the day. The end of the growing season. But each end brings the promise of a new beginning.

With the sun already partially below the horizon, an Iowa Interstate train with interchange from DM&E heads across the Government Bridge from Davenport, Iowa to Rock Island, Illinois. The double ... (more)

An eastbound UP stack train crosses the old Chicago and NorthWestern Mississippi River Bridge, passing from Iowa to Illinois. This swing bridge was built in 1909 and still sees very heavy use. A... (more)

The DPU of an eastbound (south by compass along the river) ore train has just passed under the overlook at Mississippi Palisades State Park and follows the rest of the train into Savanna. The hig... (more)

A BNSF westbound manifest (compass northbound along the Mississippi River) passes beneath the bluffs of Mississippi Palisades State Park as the setting sun lights up the limestone cliffs.

The JB Tower operator emerged from the tower to prepare to do a roll-by inspection on an empty southbound UP coal train running on CN ex EJ&E tracks. The train is about to cross UP Geneva Sub tr... (more)

As it departs the Wisconsin Dells Amtrak Station, the Empire Builder crosses the Wisconsin River just upstream of the Kilbourn Dam. The water was particularly foamy and frothy after gushing throu... (more)

A loaded eastbound coal train leaves the crew change point of Clinton and begins to cross the Mississippi River at daybreak. In the distance, two fishermen in a small boat take advantage of the r... (more)

The end of a fast moving empty coal train vanishes behind a paradoxical mixture of heat waves and snow 'dust'.

A southbound BNSF ore train just north of Savanna follows the old Burlington route below the Mississippi River bluffs that glisten with newly fallen snow.

The DPU of a BNSF coal train pushes it's train into the siding while the crew of westbound CN M337 do a roll by inspection on a glorious early fall day.

I was just a few seconds too late getting to the overpass at the Clinton Yard to get a shot of a coal train coming into the yard for a crew change before it entered a shadow. I was frustrated tha... (more)

'Where nature smiles three hundred miles' - the old slogan Burlington applied to its Mississippi River route to the Twin Cities seems apt to this setting. A BNSF intermodal passes below the Missi... (more)

On the day after Christmas, I headed over to the ex IC&E line along the Mississippi River hoping to find some blue and gold locomotives, preferably a solid set. Well, I got my wish... sort of... ... (more)

Would you call them inlaws? Conrail provides a common link between Norfolk Southern and CSX in both a figurative and, here, a literal sense. It seems symbolic that Conrail 3731 is between the No... (more)