Another coal train from the Powder River Basin heads towards Houston Power and Light's Smithers Lake power plant.

Some things never change - throughout high school and college the SP held trains out waiting to get in to the yard, and UP is now doing the same - 25 years later!

U74581-21 is pulled down the the yard board and waiting to mark up with the Desk 12 RTC to get an authority to depart Gladstone.

A Blue Line train stops at Farragut West as it makes its way to the Commonwealth of Virginia

A UP ES44AC-H leading a westbound intermodal across the Trinity River with the ever changing Dallas Skyline in the background.

One the flagship of the CN fleet, this SD40-2 is now assigned to training new conductors out of the Stevens Point crew base. I wonder if the careers of these new hires will as long as the career o... (more)

Amtrak 7, the westbound Empire Builder, makes a station stop at Wisconsin Dells while the local wildlife looks on.

A pair of CN SD75Is take a coal train west on the BNSF racetrack

Metra 213 in the original livery pulls train 1237 into Naperville as freshly rebuilt Metra 196 in the new livery shoves train 1270 in to Chicago

Amtrak's Sunset Limited prepares to depart San Antonio while Southern Pacific Mikdao 784 looks on.

I stepped off the Sunset Limited in Los Angeles with 24 hours until my flight to Hawaii. So what better to do than rent a car and drive to Wellton Arizona to catch a surviving SP Cantilever? And f... (more)

After 2 days of pulling passenger trains, the QJ 6988 returned to Newton Iowa pulling a revenue freight train.

Amtrak's Veteran's Unit leads the westbound Southwest Chief into Naperville.

A pair of KCS "Retro Belle" Gevos stick their nose out for a bit of headroom at KCS's yard in Shreveport.

UP 5780 leads an empty coal train under the endangered CNW signal bridge at Nelson. In the background you can see the Nelson coaling tower, long out of use but still in place. For now.