If bleak it is nevertheless a relatively mild winter day as a double-stack train gets underway after a crew change in Missouri Valley, IA.
An old string of Stored ATSF C40-8W's rot away in BNSF's Murray Yard. Not too much time for these old soldiers before the torch with BNSF starting to round them up again.
A coal train idles just outside of Richmond waiting for a clear signal while a mixed freight rolls by on the A-line above on a bright, sunny, summer morning.
CN 451 at Allensville in an early-season snowfall on this day last year. This storm caught me by surprise. It's no surprise to have snowfall in October, rather it's expected, but I was counting o... (more)
LMS 724, one of the GE lease units painted for Big Blue, drops downgrade past the westward home signals for MG on an autumn afternoon. STES (Sterling, MI to Harrington, DE) has auto parts for Newa... (more)
A westbound UP stack train threads tunnels 10 and 9, in that order, deep in the Feather River Canyon near Poe, CA.
On a brilliant October morning, eastbound TV-6 hustles east of CP-171 past the fiery colors on its early morning sprint to New England. This location now largely no longer possible with the constr... (more)
A power move of three CSX engines make their way through Wadley on a late fall evening.
A westbound BNSF stack train fights the grade at Coconino, just east of Flagstaff on the Arizona Plateau.
An Ex-LMS C40-8W and a CSX SD40-2 lead a westbound manifest across Ivanhoe on the CN Matteson Subdivision.
Q253-04 (North Bergen, NJ - Detroit, MI) at New Scotland, NY.
The Rossville bound NS 201 (Harrisburg,PA-Rossville,TN) waste no time coming up the NS AGS North-End at the end of the terminal at Wauhatchie (MP-5.5 Wauhatchie). With the train lined to proc... (more)