ACWR 100 heads out of Star with a single car for points west.

Aberdeen, Carolina & Western's 100 crew departs Star for the trip westward on the Piedmont Division this afternoon. They're seen passing one of ACWR's ex-UP/MILW MP15ACs, which is coupled to part ... (more)

A trio of SD40's and old DMIR ore cars loaded to the brim with steaming taconite pellets rolling down the Missabe sub bound for Proctor, MN.

The Rochester & Southern's RS-1 plows through fresh snow as it rolls south out of Le Roy, New York and passes through a small cut at Cole Road. Exhaust haze fills the air as the quartet of EMD's l... (more)

The sound of EMD's fills the air, with four units hard at work as they bring Rochester & Southern's RS-1 south towards Scottsville, New York with a long train in tow for Silver Springs.

CSX local D708 (Lansing, MI - Howell, MI turn) passes a searchlight signal and grain elevator in Fowlerville, MI on its return trip to Lansing.

After completing their interchange work with Norfolk Southern in Silver Springs, the Rochester & Southern's RS-1 climbs through Rock Glen, New York as it heads north back towards Rochester. A quar... (more)

Track speed on a cold winter afternoon.

Heading south down the Missabe sub past Iron Jct. MN with steaming pellets after leaving the U.S. Steel Minntac plant.

Southbound for Proctor with steaming hot taconite pellets on a cold winter afternoon.

There's no mistaking the lead locomotive of this mixed freight train, it's a SD40-3 with the square boxed cab. Normally the second engine which is a GE, would be leading but today the rebuilt das... (more)

An empty limestone train from Minntac cruises south around the bend through Sax, Minnesota on CN's Missabe Sub. A quartet of locomotives powers the train of side dump cars, led by former IC SD40-3... (more)

The early morning sun lights up the fall colors on the trees as Wheeling and Lake Erie 3102 and 3016 back into Rook Yard and onto their train.

A pair of CSX SD40-3's lead the J783 local as it heads south on the Toledo Sub in Troy, Ohio. A B&O CPL signal on a bracket mast, along with a CPL dwarf, guard the south of the siding here.

The thermometer on my truck said -32F and the detector only 3 miles away gave a reading of 3 degrees colder but the frigid temps aren't hindering CN's ore related business on the Iron Range as a q... (more)