With a train loaded for Detroit, a pair of BN painted 70macs scream through the northern illinois countryside, seen here having just departed Mendota.

On a hazy, yet sunny, Tuesday evening in downtown Chicago… a Wyoming coal train crawls under 18th street with loads for NS in Detroit. With railfans from all over the area in hot pursuit, this i... (more)

Cumberland Mountain, TN The four and half miles of 2.5% grade make this one of the toughest grades on any mainline in America. The west slope presents an almost equally tough 2.3% grade. C... (more)

Empty Wyoming coal heading back to the coal country. Merger is only 4 months off.

BNSF’s Cowley turn out of Greybull, Wyoming is running northbound through otherworldly landscape along the Bighorn River between Spence and Himes on the morning of June 24, 2019.

KCS SD70MAC 3967 heads light through floodwaters in downtown Davenport, heading to LeClaire to pick up a ballast train.

The Big Mac in the Executive paint scheme of the fallen flag Burlington Northern in a rare move leading a Coal train (EBMDOL0) "Loaded coal from Eagle Butte Mine to Donnie,TX", is tied... (more)

Executive MAC BNSF 9709 leads the Beer Train through Denver and the North Yard.

KCS SD70MAC 3903 leads a manifest North through the Mississippi river floodwaters in downtown Davenport at sunset. Rapid snowmelt from Minnesota and Wisconsin has pushed the Mississsippi River ove... (more)

The Big Mac SD70M with a colorful lashup consisting of NS and CP locomotives leads a manifest from Davidson Yard at Fort Worth, Tx towards Jenks Yard at North Little Rock, AR

M893 slows for a meet at Dante as they pass a church in town.

M893 pops out of Sykes Mill Tunnel as they head down the former Clinchfield with an SD70MAC rebuild leading.

Empty BNSF coal C705 rolls north on the Mississippi Export Railroad after unloading their 135 coal hoppers at the Victor J. Daniel Power Plant near Helena, MS. Paced at a 1/13th shutter speed, we ... (more)

An Executive Grinstein SD70MAC leads a long beer train destined for the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado.

A fresh Huntington SD70AC rebuild is nose-out on the rear of a loaded grain train as it makes its way into Fulton Yard. The old 'Tobacco Row' buildings make a nice backdrop, while folks below enjo... (more)