This train usually did not make it up this far this soon in the evening; this is the last shooting light of the day, and remember being a little surprised at this train being this far; must not ha... (more)

La Junta to Barstow train 448 passes the blades protecting the east switch of Model siding. In less than an hour this train will be tackling the grades of the famed Raton Pass.

The 534 was the fav train in the AM to chase north from Bellville. You started out at B'ville shooting the sulphur train, a loaded grain train usually, the remotes set out at Bellville from grain... (more)

Gotta be a spoiler in the rear of the otherwise all GE lashup, but at least it's a kodachrome.

NS 6642 + 6707 lead a 136 car manifest through Gilman IL on 1 October 2008

She was a 4-year old and had more Q and some UP help. 511 is cresting the subcontinental divide between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River.

Field of ripening rapeseed lays out the yellow carpet for CN double-stack container freight heading east from Winnipeg. Train has just crossed Perimeter Highway and newly raised bridge over Red Ri... (more)

3 SD60's - two "normal" Oakways units and a 2 window M version lead the "Northtown - Pasco" into the siding at Sprague for a meet with the V-PTLBLU8-15A. Due to 103+ degree temperatures, the NTWP... (more)

Chicago & Illinois Midland Railway SD20 81 leads SD9's 54 and 50 as they pull a long coal loads out of Powerton yards, before shoving into the Powerton Generating Station South of Pekin, Illinois.... (more)

A Richard Beal photo: From the porch of a sister SOO SD40-2, we see this meet at Gladstone with the typical Soo Line Upper Michigan power of SD40-2-F7's

Two GP40-2s lead the west bound Saginaw-Clare local.

BN 2815 leading a weed sprayer train at Orin WY.

WSOR 2054 and WSOR 2055, both former IC "Skunk" SD20s, head up a three car Reedsburg Local at Okee Wisconsin, just South of the bridge spanning the Wisconsin River in Merrimac WI. Here is video of... (more)