The Chesapeake & Ohio doing its thing -- moving coal! In this case, the SD40 has four B&O four-axle units for help.

The GP30 was pointing the wrong way, so a lowly Geep gets the honors of leading this southbound freight toward Toledo.

A southbound DTI manifest enhances the small-town Michigan ambience of Carleton (note the volunteer corn stalk staking its claim near the diamond!). This trackage is now operated by the IORY.

High short hoods always lent an aura of no-nonsense! Was the Norfolk & Western profitable because they didn't spend revenues frivolously on things like paint?

In the difficult winter of 1977-1978 Conrail was drawing upon all available locomotives to keep the traffic fluid, including this ex-New York Central GP7. Twenty years before, this would have bee... (more)

Not a lot that can still be found thirty years later! The westbound "St. Clair" behind F40 206 and the tracks and equipment at left are gone, Amtrak passengers board at a new station to the west,... (more)

Two covered wagons, Canadian-built and former Wabash, lie under the watchful gaze of Detroit's Renaissance Center across the river on one of those winter days where the ice crystals in the air mak... (more)

Not a usual sight in Everett on a weekday afternoon: three Sounder trainsets idled at Everett Station by mudslides on the trackage down to Seattle. BNSF had begun to resume service, but law manda... (more)

Winter in the Midwest! A hired laborer has shoveled off just enough of the platform, in the midst of steady snowfall, to allow passengers access to this arriving Chicago-bound train. Spring is s... (more)

Henry Ford chose to build the DTI bridge (in rear) OVER the Lake Shore main rather than ACROSS it. Could he have foreseen that these tracks, now operated by NS, would become one of the premier in... (more)

Having been withdrawn for repair to suspension components, the Northwest's iconic Talgo trainsets are beginning to return to Cascade Service. Welcome back!

Couldn't call AAA for this one! A Hulcher crew changes out the front truck of Genesis 28, reportedly suffering from a seized traction motor.

Westbound stacks on the CN side of the Thompson river meet a CP counterpart slogging its way eastward (and uphill) on the paralleling tracks on the far side.

Canadian Pacific's usual practice is to have one AC lead this empty coal train east while another offers support from the rear. Unfortunately, in this instance, it didn't sound like 8570 was cont... (more)

After holding for the passage of the Rocky Mountaineer, a westbound mostly-stack train continues its descent of the Thompson valley on a gorgeous fall evening.