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)

TP&W's sole GP-18 leads the eastbound to Logansport

SD20 81, still resplendent in C&IM green, leads a southbound North Extra thru the riparian forest south of Petersburg, IL.

A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain had been falling all day, but the WC was still up to the challenge with this only on the WC fantastic lash up. 2401,6639,1752 and 3021 have the 75 cars of tr... (more)

N&W GP18 955 leads two relatively new UP U30Cs westbound on the old Wabash, west of Springfield, IL. This shot was taken from the C&NW overpass.

southbound train on SKOL Cherryvale, KS

Rolling out of a cut past some nice fall color is Milwaukee Roads Channing -Green Bay freight. U23B 5003 is leading the way followed by GP9 310 and GP40 2042. From a railfan standpoint the best un... (more)

BN 5068,7248,9037,9253 roll empties toward the mines in the Powder River Basin near West Walker.

With the knowledge that Romulus tower was not long for this world, I stopped by one afternoon to record its presence before it "bit the dust." While I was there, I was treated to the passage of t... (more)

Soo 802, 2204C roll #912 into Trout Lake with 130 cars on beautiful fall morning. Soo U30C's were not real common on the East end of the system as they were quite unreliable. If a unit were to fai... (more)

A Richard Beal photo: Swinging across the TPW at Gilman, this ICG train heads southwest to the coal fields of Illinois

A BN freight with two SD40-2's, two B30-7A's, and an SP SD40T-2 haul a freight south towards Thermopolis. This is ex CB&Q between Denver and Laurel Montana. This stretch also includes the Wind Riv... (more)

His caboose just out of the siding at Bridger, this Smithers Lake empty is about to throttle up and start around the curve toward Orin Jct. and head up for another loadout.

The tri-weekly eastbound TP&W road train from Hoosierlift to East Peoria gets ready to hit the diamonds with the IC in downtown Gilman.