Aging SD40-2s (three of the four locomotives in this power consist) still get assignments to move the big boxes. It's not always pretty but, hey, whatever works!

The quiet end of Cascade Service train 510 passes the former Everett station, obviously no longer of use to passengers and growing over with ivy.

Entering Everett on this frosty, foggy morning, the Talgo set sports 461 instead of the usual cabbage unit.

The coal loads may eventually warm someone, but at this point the temperature was around five below, with a wind chill approaching twenty below!

Mail-8 slams past Nasby Tower on its eastward journey. The B40-8s were the chosen units to receive the white placard on the nose touting a "Labor-Management Project." It wasn't all that legible,... (more)

Traversing the Gallup Park causeway, this westbound crosses fill excavated during construction of the New York Central's 1910 Detroit River Tunnels, 45 miles away.

Ridge Road in western Wayne county offered an easier alternative to the morning suburban rush congestion AND, often, a good look at CSX and Soo/CP traffic. Nice way to start the work day!

By this date the Detroit Edison locomotives (picture 219249) that once powered DEEX unit coal trains have become a thing of the past, and Conrail power now muscles the empties from No. 1 main to N... (more)

After a long afternoon's climb to the summit at Palmer Lake, this southbound coal drag can now breathe easier.

If Boeing designers expand the dimensions of their new planes any more, BNSF is going to have to move the signal standards further back from the tracks to accommodate the containers used to ship t... (more)

Mechanized or not, trackwork still requires muscle!

This freshly painted UP unit -- why is it headed east on Conrail? -- provides the sole power to lift 97 empty coil-steel gons and flats out of the Maumee river valley and toward Lorain and Clevela... (more)

GE's answer to the "power by the hour" proposition, these LMX B39-8s or "sharks," while normally assigned to BN, are leaning into the Millbury Curve with a westbound Conrail freight. Dinner in El... (more)

The NorthWestern appeared to be an integral part of the UP long before the actual takeover, as seen here on UP's Sherman Hill.

Mountains may be an operational headache for the railroads, but as railfans, doncha just love the sound and drama of getting the tonnage over the hill?!