CPKC's Final Spike train crosses the Red River on its way to Shreveport. The city of Texarkana is known for sitting right along the Texas/Arkansas state line, with a photo op available at the post... (more)

Rolling south through the verdant San Joaquin Valley (using less than 1% of U.S. farmland, the San Joaquin Valley supplies 8% of U.S. agricultural output (by value) and produces one-quarter of the... (more)

Decked out if Metrolink's least attractive paint scheme, 32-year-old F59PH 868, one of only two F59PHs still operating on the system, pushes Orange County Line train 609 (Oceanside to Los Angeles)... (more)

A Maryland Area Rail Commuter (MARC) train has arrived in Washington DC from Baltimore, with MP36PH-3C 24 and GP39H-2 74 (ex-B&O GP40 3710) for power on the rear. (Washington DC – January 22, 2... (more)

Departing the station in Orange, and about to diverge from Metrolink's Orange Sub to their Olive Sub (and then onto BNSF’s San Bernardino Sub) is train 802. This train, consisting of F125 931 a... (more)

To the City and Back. The platform at Newark Broad St Station is full of afternoon commuters as Gladstone Branch train 433 arrives, led by Arrow III car no. 1526. This station is the tr... (more)

To Dover, the CNJ Way. After hauling a shop move from the Meadows Maintenance Complex, NJ Transit GP40PH-2 no. 4109 is seen laid up in Dover Yard with a pair of electric motors - an ALP... (more)

Dark Signals. NJ Transit Arrow III car no. 1509 is the lead unit on Montclair-Boonton Line train 208, seen approaching Glen Ridge Station. The signals here at CP Glen are approach lit, ... (more)

CPKC's Final Spike train heads over Caddo Lake as it approaches Shreveport. To the right sits the historic 1914 Caddo Lake drawbridge, which was notably visited by Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower an... (more)

290 south at CPC31 with a P32 push/pull.

The Reverse Cement Wall

After nearly a decade of shooting Cement Wall from its northern end, the last time I shot it was the Eureka and Palisade #4 in 2012. I finally got some... (more)

The Northtown to Lincoln manifest heads west in the evening sun through downtown Cokato.

A solo KCS GP22ECO has arrived at Dallas Yard in the suburb of Reinhardt, Texas as it leads the return leg of CPKC's DAMT local. The train is pulling down the main with empty centerbeams from 84 L... (more)

KCS 4006 splits the Searchlights leading train 249 West.

16R heads north through Delanson with the Wabash heritage unit trailing third.