A BNSF hump set consisting of two Warbonnets bracketing an SD40-2 (which curiously has a golden swoosh on the nose) pushes a cut of cars over the hump at Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN. Off to ... (more)
A couple of BNSF SD70ACes sit outside the diesel shop at BNSF's Northtown Yard while a former BN green switcher works hard shuttling other diesels around.
BNSF 637, an old Santa Fe C44-9W still wearing Warbonnet paint (albeit very faded), works a pull-down job at the south end of BNSF's Northtown Yard while a pair of Warbonnet Dash 8 locomotives com... (more)
UP 5319 leads Columbia loads East onto the M&P Sub in Portage.
MRL's freight from Missoula to Laurel rolls east along the Yellowstone River. 2022 saw damaging flooding along the Yellowstone from the park through south central Montana. Above the 4306 is a shed... (more)
MRS northbound suggar train M83, led by AC44i #7308, photographed between Ouro and Tamoyo yards.
Hauling a big mix of everything this mundane merchandize is dressed up today with a celebrity unit. The train is operating on a track that has bisected this small campus since Civil War days. Th... (more)
Flash Floods shut down the FEC for about 12 hours which resulted in a fleet of extra trains, like this 240 with a rare EMD leader.
The WW102 heads light to Gore over the "Sandman Branch." This portion of the line has not seen any revenue moves since January of this year when the sand mine in Gore closed.
Back when it was a day train, CN 377 is through Dorval with CN 5770, CN 8927 and 125 cars.
A westbound empty grain train heads west through southwest Virginia with the 8103 trailing second.
Daily Action. The daily container (pig) train arrives into Columbia off the Southern's W-Line from Spartanburg. Today was routine NS power, but with a nice horn and engine sound.
Tier 4 engine BNSF 3831 (ET44C4) leads the Longmont Switch local towards Loveland, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.
Light fog and ridge-hugging clouds cover Coal Creek Canyon as the California Zephyr heads west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
Last train out before flash floods shut down the railroad down south was FEC 206.
