GE ES44DC 7685 leads an eastbound manifest at Modesto Ca.

Under a colorful sky, a manifest freight train departs the yard at Roanoke and rolls past the Amtrak depot on the evening of June 20, 2020.

Being born in the early 90s, I never got to experience big-time mountain railroading on both Tennessee Pass and Raton Pass. When Tennesee Pass closed in 1997, Raton Pass continued to host freight ... (more)

An east bound BNSF intermodal, that had switched to south bound just a few miles down the rails at Kern Junction, quickly picks up some speed climbing its way out of Bakersfield and the San Joaqui... (more)

BNSF 7350 is handling tonnage near tunnel 27 in the heart of the tunnel district. Fall color dots the canyon around South Boulder Creek.

NS 7546 leads NS train D67 east past the Wabash era searchlights at Gilmore. This train has just finished working the GM Wentzville plant. The train runs west in the early morning hours from Luthe... (more)

An eastbound BNSF freight on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision, heads out of Big Timber, Montana, beneath the Crazy Mountains on the morning of June 25, 2017. The name Crazy Mountains is a sh... (more)

Dawn breaks on the Hi Line Subdivison at Nyack, as a westbound Grainer breaks the early morning stillness.

A Mounds City, IL, empty DDG train is yarding their train in Cedar Rapids. The CN yard in Cedar Rapids doesn't have any headroom, so the CN has to use the UP industrial trackage thru downtown Ceda... (more)

A one engine wonder heads west, rounding to corner adjacent to the New York Central museum in downtown Elkhart.

BNSF 7274 is in charge of a 3+2 westbound manifest sailing through McCartys, NM - a short distance east of Grants. Although this has been CTC railroad for many years, it is still generally left-ha... (more)

Six Months to Abolishment: NS 33K is seen heading west on the Norfolk Southern Lehigh Line. By October of this year, this train (and its eastward counterpart, NS 32A) would be abolished, ha... (more)

BNSF ES44DC #7725 leads Northbound CSX Intermodal Train Q186-16 through Coosa Pines at Grasmere, AL. Apparently this locomotive had been sitting somewhere for awhile with all the graffiti seen on ... (more)