A pair of SD40-2's on a ballast train. A partially loaded ballast train is seen at Valois Station in Pointe-Claire. Power is CP 6020 & CP 5874, both with multimarks.

A pair of clean C40-8's. With an elephant style lashup of two standard cab GE's in great paint (NS 8716 & NS 8701), a very late CN 528 heads east through the Turcot area of Montreal.... (more)

A couple matched DME's rumble southbound with a loaded ethanol "K" train over the Catskill Creek southbound on a serene warm evening in June. Getting these mid-western units in upstate New York i... (more)

Three brand new BNSF SD70ACe's lead their first loaded coal train run down the grade just east of the Moffat Tunnel on the former DRGW mainline. The snow capped continental divide provide a nice b... (more)

A matched pair of GEs lead detour 198 past the old barn at Esmond.

A pair of matched ICE'r units pull hard on the daily 485 manifest after crossing the diamond at Duplainville.

The weather was abysmal and the lighting even worse requiring an ASA setting of ludicrous speed. However, I couldn't resist the temptation to take a "snap" of a three unit matched set of brand ne... (more)

One of the great things about chasing trains between Birmingham and Atlanta is that Highway 78 parallels the railroad closely most of the way

Pool power from Mexico powers this afternoons NS #172.

Train 415 splits the semaphores on CNW's Twin Cities mainline just east of Fall Creek, WI. CNW 6812 was delivered in the first batch of SD40-2s in 1973, the first new EMDs on CNW since the last ba... (more)

While not "rare", the odds of getting two consecutively numbered tunnel motors alone on a train are pretty low. Traditionally (before CN, about 1997-2004) the Iron Range Sub. trains almost always ... (more)

With some slow orders in effect, the Edgemont, SD to Denver, CO Manifest just rolls along over a small bridge near the Rescar Tank Car Facility in Hudson, CO.

After Milwaukee Road abandoned its western electrification and took down the catenary, Extra 21 East with four SD-40-2s recharges the brake line after making a pick-up at Avery, Idaho on July 19, ... (more)

Two clean ACes catch the final sunlight of the evening as they cross over the Kalamazoo River with 130 empty coal hoppers in tow.

A CSXT Sunday Taft Yard local - A764 - is seen switching a cut of cars on the Sexton Branch in Orlando, Florida, with matched YN3 GP38-2 2648 and GP40-2 6041.