It's kind of rare on the Chilli Sub for a locomotive to run long-end-forward, but that's exactly how they are running this 30 car ballast train.

EMD GP38-2 748 and two warbonnet B40-8Ws lead the CHI102 local along the Des Plaines River just before backing up and switching Joliet Yard.

Fairview Grain Local headed by EMDX 748 hauls, speed, as it screams past me on Main 3.

Another really cool lash-up heads west through Lockport. EMDX GP38-2 748 and a pair of Warbonnet B40-8W's lead the CHI102 local down the Transcon.

A loaded grain train with all EMD power winds its way along the frozen Mississippi River.

An Oakway leads the Pasco to Vancouver, WA manifest through Avery in the morning light on the last day of 2007.

The flat and open expanses of the Columbia Basin allow me to fit this entire coal train into one image.

An Oakway sandwich leads a coal load for West Olive out of Wyoming and under I-196.

NS 174 climbs the Marion Hill at CP-75 on the Marion Branch

EMD 90 SD90MAC-H behind the Electro Motive La Grange facility.

Unusual to see a EMD SD60 leading a train down the Cajon Pass. This train has a rainbow consist with the EMD, Warbonnet, a H@ and a UP SD70M making up the consist.

You are looking at the Upper Mississippi River valley from the bluff overlook at Palisades State Park, where below is BN's busy ex-CB&Q. This train came out of the Galesburg terminal, it wasn't u... (more)