Thanks to Camargo Township snowplows, there was a big snowbank placed right over the rails of the DREI mainline in Patterson Springs. Due to no trains all night or morning, today's 101 blasts thro... (more)

Today's DREI 101 is a hefty 7 car train pulled by 3 SD40-2 locomotives. Seen here at Murdock, the train hits another snowbank that has been piled over the rails by plow trucks who are still fighti... (more)

WAMX 4234, the DREI's only 6-axle and a unit that rarely ever leaves Decatur Yard, leads westbound 101 over the diamond through Tuscola, IL. Due to engine issues with a few other units, expect to ... (more)

It was just another day's worth of switching duties for the crew of Webb Asset Management's Swan Ranch Railroad at Speer, Wyoming. The clean pair of EMD's got their fair share of attention before ... (more)

WAMX 3516 (GP35) was spotted sitting on a siding just south of Cheyenne, Wyoming. This engine has had quite a career, starting life in 1965 for the Pennsylvania Railroad, then worked for Conrail,... (more)

WAMX 4002 and an ex-ICE motor are powering today's westbound 101, seen here a mile east of Tuscola.

After a run from Decatur to Chrisman (with work at Tuscola), the DREI tied down at Grapevine Road on the Danville Subdivision, allowing for some pictures. The crew will then go from here back to D... (more)

With engineer Rivera at the helm, the eastbound Decatur to Paris freight train rolls by the old Murdock Mine with a heavy train in tow, topping out at 9400 tons with 6000 horsepower doing the tric... (more)

Quintana Neighborhood Railroading

Switching railroad San Antonio Central has a roster of three EMD switchers leased from Webb Asset Management (WAMX): two SW1500s and an MP15DC. Ph... (more)

Back in Black

San Antonio Central is a switching railroad that leases three EMD switchers from Webb Asset Management (WAMX): two SW1500s and an MP15DC. Photographed in San Antonio, ... (more)

With a distant storm casting its darkness to the east, a pair of WATCO six-axles sits quiet in the industrial park southwest of Cheyenne.

2 units sit on the fuel pad at Dickinson on a quiet Sunday Morning on the new Kanawha River Railroad.

On a cloudy-bright winter afternoon, a trio of SD50s - led by an ex-UP unit still grimy from its recent coal country service on the A&O - runs light toward OKC, where it will power a northbound ro... (more)

I was quite lucky to catch this. A rebuilt EMD switcher pulls a cut of cars out of the confines of the GBW Railcar facility. The SW1 style locomotive is stenciled "SW2" and does not ha... (more)

With the Wisconsin Capitol building looming, another load of aggregate for the brand new Lycon ready-mix plant in Oregon, WI crosses the causeway over Monona Bay. Seeing as the ex-C&NW line from ... (more)