Morning mists off the Flathead River drift through the swaying grasses, impartial to the passing of Montana Rail Link's "Day Gas."

Brookville Equipment Company's new BL20GH looks better than I thought, almost like a U25B and an SD45 had a baby. These are in their first month of service, part of a split order for Metro-North a... (more)

Two standard cab CSX locomotives lead an empty ethanol train westbound past the Minnesota Transportation Museum's Jackson Street Roundhouse. The museum is home to a large passenger car fleet and s... (more)

Washington County Railway's southbound train from Newport to White River Junction rolls through peak fall color in the Connecticut River Valley.

Looks like the Lake State had another little problem ... From someone in the know, "This car actually started losing it's parts and pieces back in the yard. It was the first car behind engine's pu... (more)

Three out-of-town visitors pick their way through Collinwood Yard on their way to the fuel pad. CSX has been gathering and holding lease power here, as evidenced by the dozen or so locomotives sit... (more)

The sun sets on CSX's Ohio Speedway, but the volume of trains only increases. Scanned from a slide.

Passengers on the Gateway Clipper Fleet's sunset cruise are rewarded with both a spectacular sunset and a view of a passing freight train. Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD SD70M-2
Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: June 20, 2008

Work continues around the clock to fix the Turkey River bridge. Ballast cars in the foreground were part of a northbound train that fell into the Turkey River when the southern span of the bridge ... (more)

Oops! Northbound ICE did a belly-flop on the switches at Tower CK in Winona, requiring a day to clean up the mess and resulting in Amtrak detouring via BNSF between LaCrosse and St. Paul.

Crunch! A southbound CSX grain train tosses aside a wind-damaged gate arm as if it was a toothpick.

An eastbound merchandise train is sitting over I-94 on the north side of Minneapolis, as it prepares to shove back into Humboldt as the crew doubles their train.

All the supplies required to rebuild the Turkey River bridge are stacked along the mainline. In the distance you will note what appear to be metal pilings driven into the river bed. There are also... (more)

A recent addition the Minnesota Transportation Museum fleet, BNSF SDP40 (delivered as Great Northern 325) sits on the house track at the Osceola & St. Croix Valley museum operation in Osceola, WI.... (more)

I don't know which is the sorrier looking of the pair. The crossing gate is busted, and the tired and battered F-Unit is next-to-busted. This is the "Pizza Train," run by the Indiana Transportatio... (more)