A patch of sunlight illuminates an empty coal train as the Portage de Sioux power plant provides a fitting background.

On a sunny Saturday morning in Dolton, the Bottle train slowly rolls east on the CSX Barr Subdivision, preparing to hop onto the IHB Main at the switch up ahead. The bottles are bound for Clevelan... (more)

View of Bodio station and the route of the Gotthard mountain line northwards towards Giornico. In the station on track 2 you can see the northbound IC 878 of the IC2 line from Lugano and Bellinzon... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum has a great diverse collection, including a standard gauge Denver & Rio Grande Western GP30, a Galloping Goose, and a GE 55 Ton switcher seen here getting ready to dep... (more)

Now a regular sight on the Ottawa to Quebec runs, VIA's Venture set with n. 2204 leading crosses over Lachine canal, approaching Montreal's Central Station, to then continue to Quebec.

CP SD70ACU 7042 hauls just over 10000ft of stacks & racks into Marathon

UP 4455 (0-6-0) switcher was built in 1920 by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1920 for the Union Pacific Railroad. It was sold in 1949 to Monolith Portland Midwest Company in Laramie, Wyoming, where... (more)

Time to get some brush cutters out....with big consists like this on Sundays, the view space will be needed as we climb into the summer.

Grupo Mexico Transportes liveried 820 leads the 202 through St Augustine. A careful observer will note the GP40-2 2nd behind the lng tender.

Hustling eastward across the barren plains of eastern New Mexico, and disturbing a raven as it does, is BNSF Railway train H-BARTUL9-18A, which originated in Barstow, California, and is headed to ... (more)

The Carolinian departs the station at Selma behind a clean P42. The train is coming off of the NS NC Line and onto the CSX South End Sub.

"SD70ACU" NS 7335, an SD70ACU rebuilt from an SD90MAC in late 2018, soaks up some April sun in South Fork. Though Norfolk Southern rostered 100+ ACUs at one point, since selling ... (more)

NS 5049 at the diesel shop

After a meet with 445, 2816 continues east through the North Dakota countryside near Velva. There's plenty of old codeline still to be found on this portion of the ex SOO main.

Subway 7 train (direction Flushing-Main St) is approaching Queensboro Plaza Station several minutes after sunset with the Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers in the background. Super-skinny skyscrapers... (more)