With one six-axle EMD for each car, and one for the caboose, Santa Fe Train 804 rolls east across the New Mexico desert toward Raton.

A badly faded OHCR 3303 leads an Ohio Central trash train under High Street and west out of CSXT's Parsons Yard.

RCPE 3433, one of two snoot SD40-2's on roster, is on the point of MHURC 19 shoving a cut of empty hoppers back to be spotted at the South Dakota Wheat Growers elevator in the small community of H... (more)

A pair of RCPE SD40-2's on the MHURC 19 notch up after the conductor hopped off to get ready for a 40 car set out at South Dakota Wheat Growers in the small community of Highmore, South Dakota.

Engineer Welch has two former SP "GRIP" SD45's bracketing a former SSW SD40T-2 on a 47-car westbound empty "Scoot" train heading towards Coulee City. It was nice to hear a blue 20-645E3 in Run 8 ... (more)

Early spring morning at Oroville.

Heading back from Two Harbors, CN 6024 north takes the running track at Jones to meet DMIR 403 south.

CP's Montreal to Saratoga mixed freight 252 is a few miles out of Saratoga as it rolls under the Jones Rd overpass in the Town of Wilton. A rebuilt SD40-2 (former CP 6039) leads one of the few rem... (more)

Marooned in Port Henry overnight as the unfolding April Fools Day snowstorm made roads impassable, I watched from my parked car as this scene took shape across rte. 9N. When I heard 252 cross th... (more)

For a time in the late 1990's, UP ran 5-packs of SD40-2R's on high priority trains. On the point of this consist is UP3101 which was just released from the paint shop a few weeks before. This uni... (more)

CSO-1 rolls south, past milepost 25 in Berlin. The trailing locomotive is New England Central GP38AC 3855, former Gulf Mobile & Ohio 718.

The power from southbound CSO-1 has cut away from its train and will continue into Cedar Hill yard, picking up cars that CSX left for them.

UP 1613 and 1132 drill the east side of Altoona yard. Altoona became a remote zone this past fall, which has resulted in remote control SD40N's, such as UP 1613, becoming a common sight around the... (more)

FEC 716 leads a rail train as a mother and son look on. It was a very warm day with temps pushing 90 in east central Florida.

Under storm clouds and late afternoon sun, a northbound train heads up the remote Modoc line just north of Crest between Wendel and Alturas in northwestern California. This shortcut between Oreg... (more)