Nowadays, it seems that any Class 1’s locomotive can show up anywhere in North America. In the 1970’s, foreign power showing up in a distant location was more uncommon. The Delaware & Hudsonâ€... (more)

385,000 pounds of Rolling Thunder sits just west of the CSX Huntington Yard former CSXT, LN and Seaboard 7067 a C30-7 was rebuilt into a GE Yard slug and was donated to the university by the Hunti... (more)

NS 198 approaches the eastbound signals at Bluefield, Virginia.

Eastbound manifest Ayer

Ballast train W061 heads north on the old WofA between Notasulga and Loachapoka behind a pair of C30-7's: 7121/7016.

SBD #7052 opens the throttles as it leaves Troy, AL, heading for Brundidge, Ozark, Dothan, and points beyond.

Sunny Snow Day on Cajon...

A Santa Fe westbound rounds the curve into Cajon, in the heart of southern California's Cajon Pass, on a snowy January day in 1988. The train has five aut... (more)

A pair of BN GEs shove a loaded BNSF Powder River coal train the last mile over the summit at Palmer Lake on the Joint Line. The red number boards on 5106 denote this unit as having been upgraded... (more)

Westbound UP grain empty Loring, KS.

On their way from their birthplace to their new home on the Santa Fe, five brand new C30-7’s travel west out of Conrail’s Collinwood yard.

Colton, Not West Colton.

Rolling past the Colton station and approaching the famed Colton Crossing (where the Southern Pacific crosses the Santa Fe / Union Pacific) is a westbound Sa... (more)

Running errands in Springfield, I saw this westbound stuck by a train on the ICG at Starnes Tower. When I got back to Jacksonville, I knew - thanks to the fast running on the former Wabash line -... (more)

A westbound NS train bound for Birmingham passes a couple of Opelika landmarks; one well-known, one not so well known. In the distance is the Lee County Courthouse, probably the most prominent bu... (more)

After meeting a Westbound this Helena-Laurel manifest departs the siding at Louisville under ominous skies. To the west it is mostly sunny in Helena. Snow squalls to the north gave it the definite... (more)

The curve through Loachapoka is superelevated, which is great for southbounds running downhill at 50+, but tough on the lower, inside rail when northbounds drag up the grade at 10-12 mph. This so... (more)