3062 rolls light through a tunnel of orange en route to helper duty. The locomotive (and trailing unit CSXT 5006) will meet a coal train a few miles to the south (railroad west) at Wells siding i... (more)

The Santa Train is about to push back to a track next to the employee parking lot, where a crowd of people has gathered to greet it. Two GT switchers along with an IC switcher share this cold and... (more)

A view from several hundred feet above Palmer Lake, CO., shows a northbound coal empty snaking around the big curve in town, with the DPU visible in the upper left corner. Out front are BNSF units... (more)

After a long wait in the bitter cold with fellow RPer John Ryan, 2373 finally appeared with her companions and a short train just before sunset. The warm light of the setting sun definitely made ... (more)

Fellow RP contributor Aaron Schlegel stands atop our chase vehicle to get a higher perspective of Marquette Rail's first plow run of the year.

With inspections completed, the engineer of Coe Rail's Michigan Star Clipper dinner train climbs aboard the former Bessemer & Lake Erie F7A for another leisurely trip down the rails.

The last car of a string of empty hoppers cuts through the snow as two MMRR MOW employees stand by after clearing a switch. A third continues to work on another with a backpack blower in the backg... (more)

2539 leads a local job for its weekly delivery to the Hamilton Farm Bureau, and is kept to a crawl over the old trestle which has spanned the Rabbit River for over 130 years. It's well into Novem... (more)

MQT 3391 leads MQT 3390, GR 3839 and MQT 3389 through Comstock Park, MI., en route to Grand Rapids on a moody fall afternoon. This is Z151's first trip into Grand Rapids with all three G&W repaint... (more)

Northbound BNSF 6160 sits on the main with a full load of coal cars as southbound BNSF 9685 leads an empty coal train into the siding. The engineer in parked 6160 prepares to hand off a box to th... (more)

Amtrak's Pere Marquette rolls through a west Michigan "autumn wonderland" on its journey to Chicago.

Late evening light is cast on lead engine 3045 as it pulls a train of mixed freight through Kalamazoo, MI, across Amtrak's Wolverine and Bluewater line. In the background is B.O. Tower, one of th... (more)

Eastbound BNSF led coal train heading out of Grand Rapids, MI, after a short stop in the Wyoming yard. I was fortunate with the timing on this one with a lower angled, early afternoon sun and the... (more)

A short hike and a little rock climbing provided a nice vantage point for the California Zephyr heading east through the foothills on Track 2.

Mitch Goldman: "There's a shot in there somewhere." Thanks for the suggestion, Mitch. :-) Up close and personal with 4449.