After following this train from Hoytville to Defiance, our chase is over as we view K637 rolling up to the Westward Absolute Signal at East Defiance.

Heading back to the Midwest.

DM&E 6365 is surrounded by an ocean of green as it climbs up the 1.8% grade of Stockton Hill. It will be an easy climb today with 5 motors, and only 46 cars.

DME in the Twin Ports?! Very rare visitors idle the night away in Superior awaiting their trip back south.

Love the railroad, hate the lead engine. Please either repaint these untis or have them trail only!

A long way from the grasslands of South Dakota and corn country of Iowa, a pair of DM&E SD40-2's and a CITX SD40-2 lead empty E-nol train K675 west through Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

A very well photographed train today! Here K675 grinds around the curve just west of West Newton.

Eastbound ethanol train symboled K694-19 trots into Collinwood Yard with a nice consist and the old NYC coaling tower providing a nice backdrop.

So far away.... from home these 2 DME units roam. Just a few hours earlier they were found exploring the east and west slopes of Sandpatch! CSXT K675-21

A DME SD40-2 and a DME SD40-3 along with a CSX widecab Dash 8 provide the power for this ethanol train as it runs on the recently built shoofly at MP 16. The track in the foreground is part of th... (more)

Two DME's make an appearance on unit ethanol train K694, traversing Marcy Trestle early in the morning on Fathers' Day.

171 negotiates the S-curve south of LaCrescent, MN. Within minutes the conductor will ring up the CP dispatcher and ask permission into the LaCrescent Yard.

171 rolls north through the Reno Bottoms. June is the time to shoot here. It won't be long before the lily pads will die and turn brown, ruining this shot location.

A trio of SD40-2's from DME, ICE and CITX pose atop High Falls and affront the towering structures of downtown Rochester.