Just Minutes before sunset a friendly UP train crew rolls for home after a days work.

A Mission Mountain Railroad local switches Kalispell, Montana's industrial district on the afternoon of March 6, 2012. Images such as this could become a thing of the past if the city remov... (more)

EJ&E SW1001 446, the only remaining J switch engine on the CN roster, leads a local down to Curtis Yard for interchange with the CSX.

A Mission Mountain Railroad local makes its way through downtown Kalispell, Mont. on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. The city of Kalispell is looking for ways to move the railroad and its line side... (more)

Westbound Local at Ray Junction with a set of 3 GP-18's. Digital Photo.

Going my way! This day's quest was New Haven Alcos and F-Ms in the South Bronx. After a bus ride, train ride, and subway ride to get here, I found the 0610 making setouts and pickups. I asked the ... (more)

An MRL local headed up by veteran GP9 100 is headed out to the large cement plant in Montana City on a beautiful day in central Montana

Looking southeast down the old Wabash, IAIS 900 is returning to Council Bluffs after an out and back local to Oakland Ia collecting grain loads.

The BNSF "San Jac" is a local train that stays on its branch for days at a time. The train works the area up and down between Highland and Perris and then is shut down when the crew's time runs ou... (more)

Local zips past the elevators in rural Warrensburg.

In the Summer of 95, a Burlington Northern caboose brings up the rear of an eastbound manifest... in reality this is the North La Crosse Local on a day they actually used a caboose.

CN 8837 & 2282 brings a mixed freight into rural Macon County at sunset.

CSX road slug 2357 crosses a small stream with the Ohio River in the background. This local is enroute to Benwood, WV. The 2357 is former GP40 9720 (MofW pumpkin)

The Mission Mountain local heads north at Columbia Falls, Montana late on a Friday afternoon in June, 2011.