During the Nineties, the GTW increasingly took on the appearance of its parent, the Canadian National, as CN power led more and more trains across Michigan.

Power sometimes shuffled among the roads of the Grand Trunk Corporation. A Pegger leads this GTW run-through to Willard, Ohio on the CSX.

Still exhibiting signs of the snow encountered in Oregon, a hot trailer train races southward in the morning of Election Day 2008.

This Baldwin was for years the DeKalb County Co-op's resident switcher. What a locomotive in which to have one's first cab ride!

In a corner of the BNSF empire overwhelmingly frequented by Dash-9s, it's nice to see some of the newer (than SD40-2s!) EMD power. Here's an empty coal train returning east from Roberts Bank with... (more)

GEVO 5265 as DPU lends an effort to stem the downward rush through the canyon Union Pacific shares with I-84 between Durkee and Huntington. Sister 7701 had the honor of leading.

Yes, this is the same train as illustrates the Joliet entry in Kalmbach's "Hot Spots" guide book. Photographer Howard Ande was standing about 100 feet farther up the track when he took his versio... (more)

Warbonnets screaming westward with intermodal traffic! And if you miss one, there's bound to be another along soon. The "Transcon" was/is a railfan's paradise.

One of the thirty-eights purchased second-hand from the Rock now leads an empty coal train over the top of Bancroft Hill (the westbound ruling grade) in its proper GTW livery. Compare with pictur... (more)

After days of crossing North America, this trainload of containers is a matter of hours away from embarking on the next step in its journey, a voyage across the Pacific. The locomotives, on the o... (more)

Led by an aging 90MAC, a well-powered (4+2) merchandiser eases itself down the Sacramento valley route south of Dunsmuir.

The advent of Soo Line's longhaul freights on CSX across Michigan (continued later by CP) brought a welcome upsurge of activity for railfans but marked a disturbing economic trend, that Michigan w... (more)

The grandeur of the Columbia River Gorge rather helps keep human endeavors in perspective, no?

The Dash-7 GEs were becoming fewer and farther between at this date, but 6621 wheels a hot train eastward on a very cold day.

The signal (hard to read at this angle) beckons a Sounder commuter into Mukilteo station as this stacker rumbles by in the opposite direction -- the commuter would be on its way already before the... (more)