Wabash 1189 trails on the excursion train as it returns east towards Decatur.

After making a setout and swapping crews at Rexford, two signature parts of Kyle's roster roll out of town with 76 cars in tow.

Shoving towards Metra's Western Avenue yard for a night photo shoot and some rest before display and an excursion this weekend.

Two "Operation: Lifesaver" locomotives sit back to back in the morning sun including NS 5317 and IC 6071. Both are on display for Monticello Railway Museum's Railroad Days event.

DM&E 6050 leads an early and lengthy train 270 through the middle of Bellevue, Iowa. The hills of the Mississippi River valley are alive with color and the blue and gold of today's leader just ad... (more)

Echoing the sights, sounds, and smells of Milwaukee Road passenger and freight trains of the past is Nickel Plate Road 765 coming off of Metra's Fox Lake Subdivision at Rondout with The Varsit... (more)

July 27th, 2015 marks the end of an era in Watrous, New Mexico, as the passing siding located in town along BNSF's Raton Subdivision loses its iconic semaphore signals. These, along with nine othe... (more)

Today's westbound manifest from Tracy, Minnesota to Huron, South Dakota has just cleared the west siding switch at De Smet where it met its eastbound counterpart. Seven SD40s now work to get the t... (more)

A much-appreciated pair of YN2 motors breeze along the Monongahela River and pass Pittsburgh's Station Square.

Nashville and Eastern 579, an ex-BNSF B40-8W, sits silently in front of the historic Imperial Hotel in Monterey, Tennessee. It and sister unit 574 are here for a ceremony that took place earlier i... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 works down former Wabash rails towards the connection to the Indiana Harbor Belt at CP Ridge, where it will turn northwest and head to Franklin Park and CP/Metra property for the ... (more)

A couple of railfans chat with the engineer of the southbound Illini before he backs the train around the wye at the north end of Carbondale to prepare for tomorrow morning's return to Chicago as ... (more)

UP 2010 leads the Operation: Lifesaver special through Elgin, Illinois, on their last day in the area.

The westbound Southwest Chief squeezes through a rock cut in the secluded area northeast of Watrous, New Mexico known as Valmora.

Wabash 1189 sits beneath the cloud of steam erupting from the ADM facility in Decatur, Illinois while loading passengers for Norfolk Southern's 2011 Santa Train.