Upon arrival at Council Bluffs this was the first shot of the surroundings exposed on John's roll of film, the human side of railroading always a treat to see.

Ten years into it's service life NP 309 works the yard at the Butte terminal.

A pair of BNSF yard locomotives sit in the middle of Whitefish Yard while a grain train holds the main.

Tacoma Rail GP40M 4002 brings a short yard job from the South Yard to Slug 2 over the newly installed crossing to continue switching at Tacoma Rail's Tidefalts yard. I went out that day with a fri... (more)

After it stopped hauling logs, Oregon, California & Eastern spent a few months switching out an on-line oil distributor. When a spur was built to connect this plant with Burlington Northern, OC&E ... (more)

Small and mighty is a good way to describe this 1960's era switcher that is moving cars around for the Savannah Port Terminal Railroad. Though it is dwarfed by the large containers it is haulin... (more)

Working hard to move stacks around the Savannah Port Terminal Intermodal Transfer Yard, this classic era 1960s switcher is waiting for the conductor to give the word and shove back into the yard. ... (more)

Street Running - Alaska Style

This is as close as you can get to street running in Alaska as a yard job shoves three cars north toward CEI. The little train is running alongside 1... (more)

Street Running - Alaska Style

This is as close as you can get to street running in Alaska as a yard engine trundles back south beside 1st Ave after spotting three cars at a custome... (more)

After working the NS K21 job, the crew of NS 5323 take the solo engine up to the south end of the yard, and prepares to make a reverse move back up into the yard.

One of the very few YN2 painted SD70ACe's on the CSXT roster is seen here working the yard in Cayce, SC.

The Cayce Yard crew is about to switch tracks with 2 different sets of power and shove back further into the yard. Here they are pulling to a stop at the switch point.

Yard job at work

A quiet Sunday afternoon in Bakersfield, CA finds San Joaquin Valley Railroad power tied down at Gomez at the west end of BNSF's Bakersfield yard. For BNSF however there is work to be done as a pa... (more)

A slug set idles at the south end of Dubutts Yard as light rain begins to fall. The weather in the next few minutes following this photo was extremely bipolar, but allowed me to shoot a rainbow st... (more)