BNSF is busy installing CTC on their double track section of the Aurora Sub between Graf near LaCrosse, and CP 1462 near Savanna. Alot of this section of the railroad is still TWC/ABS territory, w... (more)

The quiet evening is broken by the sound of 3 GE's working hard to pull this oil train out of the Rock River Valley east of Oregon. Here the train is about to the top of the grade at sunset as the... (more)

The Belt Clearing Yard to Northtown Yard freight train is being rounded up by the Chicago to South Seattle Q-train on the small section of double track at Rochelle. Both trains were held by the UP... (more)

In Awe

Strasburg's ex. Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 arrives in East Strasburg on a beautiful spring day

With empty coal hoppers for the classification yard at Russell in tow, CSX #86 begins the trek up the Big Sandy Valley from Shelby to Russell, passing the ex-C&O bracket signals at the West End of... (more)

A loaded rail train has just crossed the BNSF Aurora Sub at Savanna. This train is heading out on the Chicago Sub today to dump rail between Byron and Davis Jct. Not alot of Soo Line painted SD60'... (more)

CSX 5450 heads west through south side. too bad that Bnsf wasnt the leader!

Grinding upgrade on the Pocahontas District, eastbound manifest 18M ducks under the N&W CPL at Langraff, WV on it's assault on the Elkhorn Grade. Photo taken with permission.

Fillmore and Western's Mothers Day Lunch Train stops short of the Semaphore signals at a station stop on the original coast route.

Leaving the Illinois River Valley behind, westbound empty coal train E-CICBTM0 03R roars toward the setting sun as it ducks underneath of pair of ATSF searchlight signal bridges at Edelstein, IL a... (more)

NS H02 heading east onto the Ex-EL Boonton line on a frigid January morning.

Less than a year after NS 18N derailed, NS 10N has derailed within CP Altoona and CP Cove Jct, at approximately 8pm. Several empty RBMN hoppers have piled up. All tracks are fouled except Main 2.

An eastbound freight's flashing FRED passes beneath a former Atlantic Coast Line cantilever signal bridge at the east end of the old ACL station in Lakeland. The unused ACL station was built in 19... (more)

SEPTA's Doylestown line required rail work in the mid 1980's. Amtrak work equipment was used, including this pair of GP7 pumpkins seen running around their train early on a September evening.

A yard crew deadheads the recently arrived Southwest Chief out of Los Angeles Union Station and down to 8th Street Yard with the no-longer used but still iconic Mission Tower in the background.