CSX 4547 leads Q209 southbound into Lima, through DT&I JCT. This is where we get onto the Toledo Sub, and start our fun 50/35 MPH trip to XN.

During a brief break of sunlight Canadian Pacific train CP 930 passes through Wickham Marsh at Port Kent, NY with a rare and unusual all EMD lashup of BNSF 9721, UP 8582 and UP 9010.

A welded rail train lead by a MAC begins it's duties of laying rail once given permission by the dispatcher. High priority train I143 is headed south, so this train has around an hour to get some... (more)

Canadian Pacific train CP 930 departs Rouses Point with a great all EMD lashup of BNSF 9721, UP 8582 and UP 9010 that makes this scene seem right out of the western US

My 1st trip out to the Sand Hill of Nebraska was back in 2001. Guy would see tons and tons of MAC's leading coal trains. In 2018 now I get excited just to see a MAC leading any kind of train. The ... (more)

We were surprised how many white MAC's are out and running for the BNSF currently in August 2021. The BNSF has send quite a few of them back to leaser or scrape them. While most don't have PTC to ... (more)

Faded glory,yet distinguished. Basking in the Sunday sun by a cornfield with a river nearby, bucolic ain’t the word. With a wide variety of power one never knows what will appear next.

The old Gateway Western trackage thru Missouri has alot of neat stuff to shoot. The problem is the train traffic is light and normally nocturnal for the most part. On Wednesday, 6/02, many problem... (more)

The Venice, IL, to Kansas City, MO, freight train has just backed out of the siding at East Blackburn after meeting their counterpart. The crew made an unusual move so the conductor could lined th... (more)

The Venice, IL, to Kansas City, MO, freight train has just backed out of the siding at East Blackburn after meeting their counterpart. The crew made an unusual move so the conductor could lined th... (more)

CSX train Q580-07 has just received a recrew and is now slowly pulling their train into Wauhatchie to set out a manifest block before proceeding onto the Chattanooga sub for Nashville, TN.