UP 2539 East is crossing over from No.2 to No.1 track at CP601, west of Lookout, WY, as it climbs the grade on a sunny Wyoming morning.

TV-61, with helpers on the rear, is slugging it out on the Alllegheny grade as it crosses over from No.2/3 track at MG on a summer morning. Fuji Velvia.

This fellow is having no trouble making track speed with plenty of power and just a handful of cars.

Both BNSF and UP could not double track fast enough to keep pace with the increase in coal traffic emanating from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. Here an eastbound coal train with a pair of han... (more)

CR 6666 and 6660, ex-EL SD-45-2s, are the snappers on Mail 3H this October afternoon as the train enters Horseshoe Curve. The position light signal bridge no longer remains and that's a shame.

CR 6369 and 6656 are snappers on a westbound manifest negotiating Horseshoe Curve on an overcast autumn morning.

I am uncertain as to the precise date and location, however this was upon a NRHS excursion from Philadelphia via Sunbury and thence down the Bald Eagle Branch to Tyrone. We toured the West Virgini... (more)

The rural nature of the Sandhills Sub was transformed with the advent of coal traffic - first with CTC and then extensive double-tracking such as was underway between Mullen and Whitman, NE in the... (more)

Out in the vastness of the Nebraska Sandhills, Cow Country, BN 5088 with Santa Fe partner leads another string of coal empties west towards Alliance and the Powder River mines. This line was once ... (more)

From the cab of the ZCSOA: here she comes - CNW 8676 leading an eastbound manifest up the long grade from Laramie to Sherman.

We're in the cab of UP 6190 West, the ZCSOA, and about to meet an eastbound as we approach a low green and head-in from No.2 to No.2 track at (East) Hermosa. Straight-railing takes you onto No.3 t... (more)

Autumn colors are already beginning to wane high on the slope of the Alleghenies as one among the daily procession of manifests ascends the mountain at MG. A set of helpers fore and aft assist the... (more)

Here's something unusual ... a coal train in Nebraska. Actually, there are more than you can shake a stick at. BNSF 8439 is in charge of yet another set of empties as it cruises off the siding at ... (more)

Mail 9, with a pair of helpers on the rear, comes out of Bennington Curve on the last couple miles to the summit at Gallitzin.

Spring is at long last sprung as UP 8532 West, the fifth of eight trains in an hour and a quarter (6 UP, 2 BNSF), heads out of town.