On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine the crew now swaps out one gondola and picks up two others from a small siding at a metal scrap yard just outside downtown Hib... (more)

On the way home after switching bentonite hoppers at the Minorca mine and passing by what once was a small stretch of light industrial business along the line.

On the way up to the Minntac mine on a nice evening.

The engineer leans back in the seat as he creeps along while loading iron ore bearing rock at the United Taconite coarse crusher at the Thunderbird mine.

Creating a little shadow of their own as they go between the long shadows of a late evening.

Coming up from Two Harbors, CN 2039 runs through the Nugget control point on the CN Iron Range Sub as they travel to the Minntac mine to load iron ore pellets.

A pair of four motors position units stored at the East St. Louis Yard. KCS #1909 was originally built for the the Milwaukee Road.

NS 4822 " Thank you to our Railroaders "

Recently acquired NS 3983 ex CEFX 1016 sits waiting for service. It will eventually get rebuilt into an AC44C6M

CN 401 has three platforms up front and CN 2616, CN 8955 & CN 4724 for power as it passes a long string of grain cars parked on Track 29.

With a loaded train of freshly harvested sugar cane in tow, the South Central Florida Express's Cane 5 job heads towards the US Sugar mill as it crosses over an irrigation ditch in Clewiston, Flor... (more)

A new crew is getting onboard the CSX business train close to sunset.

Train passing towards Paranapiacaba yard

Heritages In Penn. On the night of April 30, 2024, Amtrak Train 239 was sitting on Track 5 with P32AC-DM AMTK 701 in its retro Phase III Empire Service paint scheme next to NJ TRANSIT Train... (more)

A bone dry golden hilled landscape, along with a saturated green creek bed, creates a perfect contrast and scene for a short BNSF intermodal to quickly twist its way up through one of the most sec... (more)