A SP CSUX coal empty climbs through the double loops at Crater, Colorado. Common on SP’s newly operating DPU-equipped trains at the time, a lone No. 298 is on the head end, while the mid-train D... (more)

A westbound UP manifest is strung out over the horseshoe curve at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon, gaining elevation on its way toward the tunnel district.

After meeting each other at Rocky, the MNYGJ continues west on the main at Clay while an empty ballast train passes by the intermediate signal at MP 16.1. The distance between the trains has expan... (more)

This afternoon a relatively minor head on collision took place on the KCT Low Line between UP Armourdale Yard and Adams Street Interlocking just north of Kansas Avenue in Kansas City, KS. A DME... (more)

Cotton Belt Tunnel Motor #9295 rounds Tehachapi Loop.

The elusive over and under shot at SHEN with a westbound Q217 on the CSX Cumberland Sub and the hot intermodal NS 203 south on the NS H Line.

I finally pulled off the true over over under shot at Santa Fe Jct./BNSF Crossing. Every train in the shot was moving, albeit the move on the bottom, UP Train MLIKS 11, was slow rolling up to a re... (more)

The Butler Job is handing a train of Ethanol to the CN and the Oeiwein is heading East on the UP's ex CGW line. I just misted an over under by the same railroad on two lines they don't own by 7 ca... (more)

It's last light at Big Ten Curve as a loaded coal train descends toward Denver. The three mid-train helpers are moving Right to Left, while the front portion of the train is moving Left to Right b... (more)

A view from the coal dock at East Altoona reveals a passenger train, powered by a EP40,on the main line westward to the Altoona station. The dead steam in the foreground will probably never run a... (more)

As we ascend Metrolink's bridge over the BNSF's Cajon Subdivision in San Bernardino we observe an eastbound UP manifest train.

Fly Over- CN makes good use of it's EJ&E by-pass route through Chicago. M342 jumps over a westbound BNSF Aurora Sub Scoot, at Eola.

While UP's hot shot ZBRLC holds at Caliente, the MWCRV 22 drops down the hill and into Caliente.

A nearly perfect meet of the two Eurocitys between Zürich and Milan on the "staircase" of the Biaschina! On the upper level, crossing Pianotondo viaduct EC 16 Milan-Zürich (ETR 470 of the SBB),... (more)

As the cars of a westbound manifest circle the Loop above, its head end appears on the approach below.