Fresh out of a rebuild, FTRX 1515 tugs on a cut of storage cars during its first day of operation under its new owner. This engine came from the Alton and Southern and now sports this spiffy paint... (more)

Other railfans get their shots as an autorack train pulled by a solo SD70M passes through the Rochelle Railroad Park. The old signal bridges are a nice touch to the scene.

The original NS heritage unit and a Citirail ES44AC, CREX 1314, lead rerouted UP manifest MHOKC 18 through Kirkwood, MO, on a beautiful late summer afternoon. Less than 5 minutes after this shot w... (more)

Nighttime Noses. A GE C40-8 and an EMD SD70M compare their leading ends under a nighttime storm at Dupo, IL, as the headlights of approaching transfer YDU50 begin to illuminate the scene.

The NYC heritage unit, leading BNSF MWQMNSL, blocks traffic on Hall Street as it works its way into NS' Luther Yard to drop off its train. Truck traffic is prominent on Hall Street as the corridor... (more)

The trees are blooming as a family watches a UP empty coal train start its descent down Kirkwood Hill in early April.

Life begins at 50. GM&O GP35s aren't common sights on Norfolk Southern trains, so VLIX 631 was a welcomed treat on this NS manifest. Painted in ragged Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio paint and ridin... (more)

Norfolk and Western 611 adds a little life to an otherwise grim scene at Shawsville, VA.

Repainted, rebuilt, and reengined, a former ATSF SD45-2, now decked out in fresh H3 paint, leads Schneider National containers towards BNSF's Argentine Yard on KCT trackage. Helping out in the tra... (more)

Heritage hat trick. NS's Southern heritage unit rests outside of A.O. Smith Yard after leading train 168 in earlier in the afternoon. Three tracks over, the Savannah and Atlanta and Conrail... (more)

The clouds that have been giving photographers fits all day create a fluffy sky as the Monongahela heritage unit powers up an empty BNSF oil train after stopping to let the conductor throw a switc... (more)

A pair of orange Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern locomotives throttle up out of the small hamlet of Coulterville, IL, with the L546. The sun would drop below the flat Illinois horizon in just a couple ... (more)

A Ferromex ES44AC and a Fakebonnet Dash 9 trail two orange BNSF motors on a westbound manifest passing through Ethel, MO, on BNSF's busy Marceline Subdivision. The classic cantilever and signal br... (more)

National Train Day 2012 may be in its final hours, but BNSF intermodal train QSTLLAC is just beginning its journey as tilts into the wide curve at Pacific, MO. The patched Southern Pacific AC4400C... (more)

Bound for Charlotte, PRR E8 #5809, with a number of high rollers in tow, crosses over at the Salisbury, NC, Amtrak station.