First run of a phase 7 P42 duo heads across a bridge as it heads up towards tunnel one.

Saturday April 27's run of the Lake Placid Limited passes over Hwy. 27 as the crew makes their way back to the US Sugar shops in Clewiston, Florida. It was a good chase of a neat steam engine and ... (more)

At the Nixon Power Plant. SP 6785 6840 7424 8361 unload a coal train, at a Colorado power plant. The picture really depicts how the Southern Pacific looked the last few years.

Reflections of the Way I Used to Be. Dressed up in FEC garb, the beautifully restored U.S. Sugar Light Pacific 148 crosses Fisheating Creek during a US Sugar sponsored photo charter.

Although it's been a while since sunrise, the cool air still made for a good plume as 2816 rolls down the grade out of Anamoose.

Tying up
The conductor does some last minute paperwork and the engineer shuts down the power as Watco’s Palouse River & Coulee City freight ties up at Mockonema, Washington, on Septem... (more)

Westbound coke thru CP Leets.

2816 gets underway at Minot on the 320-mile run to Glenwood, MN that will involve by my count six meets with oncoming trains and four maintenance stops, making for more than a full day.

Uglier even than a Sperry, this tie train is (appropriately?) tied down at Martins. I even caught a break in the clouds for this, not that helped its appearance any. Do not hump, you say? Well, no... (more)

Coal empties roll west through Davy. Trailing unit is SD70 2519

SC&H Alco 5 shines in the afternoon sun as it pulls the Hadley Express into Corinth after completing the second & busiest ride of the day with engineer Roth watching ahead of the movement before h... (more)

Shortly after sunrise, BNSF C-SCRMRBC0-45F has mid-train helpers cut in and they have begun their climb out of Helena towards Mullan Pass. Notable buildings of the Helena skyline can be seen in th... (more)

A typical Chicago scene....on most days. It's certainly not everyday you see an Illinois Central locomotive leading an Amtrak train, but that's what we have here as a late City of New Orleans shov... (more)

A pair of Dv12 diesel hydraulics working a loaded timber train from Alavus to Seinäjoki. In the upper right corner is the worksite of a new timber loading terminal where fresh raw wood will be tr... (more)

A pair of SD70's lead this Englewood, TX, to South St. Paul, MN, freight that has slowed up for the curves and diamond at Iowa Falls. The train passes over the branch the UP that runs over to Alde... (more)