As summer for my son comes to an end, this will be his last NYAR freight during the afternoon hours. He accompanies me with video as I man the still camera. The 40 boys' work is behind them now wh... (more)

After train Nº 300 is cleared, and making it's way down the belt-line, train Nº 100 is making the run eastbound up grade for the return trip back to Grand Junction. Personally I'm a sucker for... (more)

SW1200 Nº 606 eases train Nº 100 Missionary Ridge local around the curve just west of the portal of Whiteside Tunnel in east Chattanooga with a four car train. The local will coast down hill int... (more)

Northern Pacific SW1200 152 switching in Minneapolis MN July 1970. The 152 was built in July 1957 and has yet to be renumbered BN 211 in this photo. This unit made it into the BNSF and was renumbe... (more)

This vintage SW1200 was built as the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy #9271 in 1955 and is now working for US Steel's Granite City Works as their #1191. Here, we see it letting out the smoke as it sho... (more)

I lucked into the Salt Lake Garfield & Western MP15 switching the international center.

Illinois Terminal Belt Railroad MP15AC No. Y 1477, a former Southern Pacific motor, spots a bad ordered grain hopper and Tate & Lyle Alco S2 8110 as conductor Blake Dooley works in the siding at W... (more)

Call it the little engine that got no respect. Former NPBL unit was acquired by NS along with sister 1231 around 1988 but neither appear on most NS rosters. Leased to Louisville, New Albany & C... (more)

Laying over in the Conrail Yard in Hammonton with a nice coat of snow from a recent storm.

KXHR 101 proceeds with the first task of the morning–replacing empty scrap gondolas at CMCs Knoxville Mill with loads from PCS Metals, the CSX interchange at W. Knox, and the NS interchange at C... (more)

5 Switchers chug south with a heavy load of taconite pellets destined for Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock, PA.

"Work Train Through Jamaica Station" A Long Island Rail Road work train passes through Jamaica Station on Track 9 while on its way west towards a work zone in Wooside.

Knoxville and Holston River Railroad (KXHR) train 102 makes its way by the CSX West Knox yard interchange as it makes the daily trip south/west to Forks of the River industrial. Today’s power wa... (more)

A 1954 classic! The former Milwaukee Road 2048, now operating for Metra as the NIRC 3, makes its way off the St. Charles Air Line and onto the Rock Island District at 16th Street. Its train of thr... (more)