After completing its station stop in Ottumwa, Iowa, Amtrak's California Zephyr throttles up and continues west into the setting sun. On the point of this day's train is P42DC 160, painted for the ... (more)

A loaded coal train grinds its way over the MRL's Bozeman Pass, emerging from the tunnel at West End, Montana as the trailing SD70MAC billows smoke after its trip through the tunnel. With addition... (more)

Oil Creek & Titusville M420W smokes it up as it rolls past S2 85 as it pulls freight along the yard tracks on the east side of Titusville, Pennsylvania. The 3568 has been freshly repainted into th... (more)

Veteran GE U23B LRWY 2300 leads the charge as the Lehigh Railway brings a long train of loaded frac sand cars south through Ulster, Pennsylvania and leans into the s-curve.

With an ex-CP GMD SD40-2 in the lead, the Ohio Central's ZVNK crew brings a stone extra around the bend in Licking Township, Ohio as they head towards Zanesville. The block of trash cars at the he... (more)

A Buffalo & Pittsburgh GP38-2 and trio of SD60's shove a loaded stone train into the siding south of Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania after bringing it down from Great Valley, New York. A B&O CPL stands ... (more)

With a GP35 and an SD40-2XR for power, the Montana Rail Link's Logan Local works the yard in Logan, Montana as it puts together a train of cement cars to take up to Trident.

A pair of CSX GE's lead manifest freight Q693 as it rolls south through Big Sandy Junction in Catlettsburg, Kentucky and passes by the old tower. The train is diverging off of the Kanawha Sub and ... (more)

One of the Oil Creek & Titusville's Alco S2's leads the northbound leg of an excursion trip as it crosses the truss bridge over Oil Creek in Petroleum Center, Pennsylvania.

A trio of EMD's, with an Executive SD70MAC on the point, bring up the rear of loaded coal train C ATMPAM0 31A as it rolls through the West Bottoms of Kansas City, Missouri. The train is getting on... (more)

The Montana Rail Link's LAUBOZ freight swings around a rock outcropping outside of Livingston, Montana as a pair of SD40-2XR's lead the charge up Bozeman Pass, making quick time with a short train... (more)

CSX manifest freight Q568 makes an evening run east across the Erie West Sub behind a pair of Canadian National locos, rolling through vineyards in Ripley, New York with the BC Rail heritage unit ... (more)

With both of the GVT Alco's that are assigned to the Falls Road, the crew is at work in Lockport, New York as the sun begins to rise. The train has made a run over to the transload tracks to grab ... (more)

Early morning sun shines on the BNSF Des Moines to Galesburg Manifest as it slowly rolls towards the IA-5 crossing as it approaches Albia, Iowa. The train is less than a mile from the switch where... (more)

Norfolk Southern intermodal 218 cruises under the old N&W coaling tower as it heads south through Prichard, West Virginia on the Kenova District. The coal cars on the left are stored at what was o... (more)