FEC 905 with the For a Cure Susan Komen motor heads north with the New Smyrna Beach Haul. The 425 and 436 represent the Susan Komen organization supporting breast cancer research.

Hard working FEC 905 roars back northward

The IHB Unicorn. Indiana Harbor Belt 4010 does its best to blend in with the rest of the standard cabs at the IHB yard in Blue Island, Illinois, but is a unique unit. Built as Southern Paci... (more)

A rare GP40P-2 leads the IHB's Burns Harbor to Gibson transfer back to home rails.

IHB 4010 holds at Burnham Yard with a manifest.

IHB GP40P-2 4010 leads train 115 west on the Chicago Line in brilliant sunlight.

New Years Day 2020 finds this former SP unit at rest in IHB Blue Island Yard.

UP GP40P-2 at El Centro.

A westbound IHB transfer to Blue Island Yard crosses the diamonds with the old Missouri Pacific (UP Villa Grove Sub) at Dolton Junction. 4010 leads the charge, being one of only three GP40P-2's ev... (more)

My first train of the new decade is a westbound Indiana Harbor Belt transfer, led by GP40P-2 4010 and GP38-2 3801. The train is holding at CP 98 in Dolton, waiting for permission into Blue Island ... (more)

All is quiet and not much happening here on the first day of 2020 as various units sit around in the sun.

Starting in the late 1980s (as I recall), SP power became very common on trains coming up CSX from New Orleans, but we did not see many GP40P-2s. I watched hundreds of trains through Opelika in t... (more)

Built as MILW #162, PHRR #8955 sits along the Mississippi River across from The Gateway Arch.

Rocky Mountain Railtours ("Rocky") decends the 2.2% grade thru the incredible Cheakamus Canyon. The moss covered cliffs, lush greenery and raging Cheakamus River make this section of ra... (more)