Cargill Camouflage. The Cargill grain elevators in Gilman, Illinois are served by a very distinctive switcher, CLCX 9698, Alco 2SM. Chattahoochee Locomotive Company rebuilt this Houston Be... (more)

Assigned to a spreader extra, CP 6302 quietly idles away a crisp winter night on the pool 8 shop track. Evening RLCS beltpack job pulls up for lunch on the right, and the historical Fort William s... (more)

A Metra weekend commuter run from Chicago slows before crossing the ICG/ATSF diamonds and stopping at Joliet Union Station. By this date the former double track Rock Island mainline here was down ... (more)

Sitting on the station track at Jasper, Alberta is VIA Rail train 5, former known as the Skeena, waiting for departure time on July 19, 2011. The short four-car train led by EMD F40PH-3 No. 6411 t... (more)

Alco in the House

Arkansas short line Little Rock & Western’s engine shed in Perry is located immediately behind the former Rock Island station, which is still identified by its ... (more)

The world famous TVRM Soule Shops.

After switching cars at the smelter of Freeport McMoRan’s Miami Operations near Globe, Arizona, and making up a good portion of an outbound train in the upper yard in the facilities, an Arizona ... (more)

One of the former Amtrak F59PHIs lead a WB commuter for the Milwaukee Road past the former A2 MILW Tower.

GCRY 237, a former Amtrak F40PHR, approaches Willaha on the return trip to Williams. Willaha is a remote crossing that is home to a siding and an abandoned building.

An empty tank car train is rolling down Soldier pass with the towering Castle Gate rock near the mouth of Price Canyon in the background. Pulling are Morrison Knudsen built MK5000C from 1994/1995,... (more)

Utah Railway's Alco's 402, 401, 403 doing what Alco's do best. Tom Ellis photo.

The RCPE afternoon westbound train departs Mankato with 30 empties dwarfed by the 135 foot Ardent Mills silos that recently had a mural painted on them.

Freeport McMoRan No. 59 leads a third train up the hill from Clifton, Arizona, after quickly picking up the last remaining interchange tonnage from Arizona Eastern Railway on October 22, 2020. FMI... (more)

The inbound Belt Railway of Chicago transfer is in the last miles of its trip to deliver to the B&OCT's Barr Yard. Tom Golden photo.

No longer serving its intended purpose is the tired depot at Grayville, Illinois, on a rainy April 25, 1993, as an Indiana Hi-Rail freight ambles through town on a former Illinois Central line. Th... (more)