CPR C-Liner 4104 is dead in consist as it heads east on the Laggan Sub for repairs in Calgary. The other 4 units are working hard up the 2.2% grade past Wapta Lake to the Great Divide at Stephen ... (more)
As a northbound NS manifest heads into Gest Street Yard from Kentucky, a CSX vehicle train out of Louisville negotiates the curves at CT Junction.
WC 6593 leads a pair of GP40's west through an extremely heavy snow squall just west of Trout Lake. The CN merger had happened a couple months before but solid WC consists in old WC territory were... (more)
In over 30 years of rail fanning I have never seen an EMD make this much smoke. The WC 814 was assigned to the north end switch crew at Shops yard and as the afternoon progressed the clouds just k... (more)
During the later 70's into the 80's at LaCrosse, the BN had a pair of hot westbound TOFC/COFC trains that normally arrived right around sunset. These were trains 3(to Seattle) and 13(to Portland) ... (more)
A face in the crowd
The San Jose Turn arrives in Fremont, California, passing the SP junction at Niles Tower. After setting out cars in the Fremont yard, it will back up past Niles Tower and head down the San Jose B... (more)
Soo 768,6613,4411 roll out of a setting sun at the end of a short frigid winter day. The coil steel cars stored in the siding at Caffey were a sign of the times in the early 1980's as we rode out ... (more)
A different view of one of the PRR position lights on the METRA line out of Chicago Union Station at Racine Ave, with the Willis Tower in the background.
While the Soo presented a fairly modern appearance in the 80's with lots of modern power, cabooses and welded rail, it still had moments where You could feel that maybe time had stood still for sa... (more)
A pair of Ex Virginian H Liners are switching a train near Mullens, WV.
3 NP SD45's are on the former SP&S at Scribner, WA shortly after the merger to BN. These units have not been renumbered.
Coors Light - eat your heart out! A Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: ASEA AEM-7DCLocation: Hamilton, New Jersey, USALocomotive #: AMTK 937Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: February 22, 2011
Heavy snowfall obscures a CSX eastbound as it crosses the ex-C&O in Fostoria.
At dusk, a fast moving CSX westbound kicks up snow as an opposing stack train waits to enter the yard at Willard.
