On a cold December day, Chicago Burlington & Quincy 5615 heads a freight west at Congress Park, Illinois. I managed to get this shot as she slowed to work the Indiana Harbor Belt interchange.

Detouring due to a large derailment that blocked the ATSF Transcon Line, ATSF hot intermodal train Q-NYLA heads through Raton, NM behind a quintet of Warbonnets. Scanned from my Kodachrome 25 slid... (more)

Climbing away from the Rockies on the way toward La Junta, NM is a detouring ATSF 891 intermodal train with a pure Warbonnet set of power leading the hot intermodal. Scanned from my Kodachrome 25... (more)

NKP 765 storms south with a mixed freight for Owosso in the early fall.

Southern Railway 2-8-4 #2716, with the conductor protecting the shove move, is being turned for the return excursion trip to Birmingham. The building in the distance is the Western Railway of Ala... (more)

N&W 1218 waits at Fargo, Ga to meet NS 8583 south. Today's excursion is the Suwanee Steam Special, a round trip to Valdosta Georgia, a distance of 106.5 timetable miles.

The exhaust clings to the cutting wall as a westbound freight blasts the last few hundred yards toward the tiny (and hopelessly under-used) Galadesitai station. Passing loops here allowed the pass... (more)

Alco-build No 2056 powers her train upgrade from Fickburg towards Ionia Siding with a train of fuel tankers.

25NC 'Elize' performs with a short freight within the confines of Reefsteamers Germiston Depot. A planned main line trip for Geoff Cooke's tour group using Reefsteamers engines and stock had been ... (more)

Santa Fe 3751 slowly leads it's 4 car special down into San Bernardino while BNSF 7651 pushes hard on the rear of a WB stack train.

ATSF #3751 idles in LA Union Station, awaiting it's journey to San Diego.

With her fast freight seeming to stretch forever into the distance, Nickel Plate Road's Berkshire #765 highballs south through the Michigan countryside.

The stillness of a hot August sunset is broken by the passage of a fast freight racing southbound through the lush Michigan farmland.

The War is over. Fancy F units from EMD are being assigned to luxury passenger trains but steam reigns supreme on the Pere Marquette when it comes to moving freight across the heartland. Times a... (more)

Berkshire Power! The silence of a chilly, late summer, Michigan morning is shattered by the approach of a double-headed, 34-car, Nickel Plate freight. This stunning re-creation of the fina... (more)