Light power to pull Lakehead pulls down the Hole Track while DMIR 408 and two sisters spot empties high above on Dock 6. The sun was out for a cumulative of 15 seconds in the few minutes I was on ... (more)

With their dynamic breaks howling, UP coal loads fight gravity descending the horse-shoe shaped Gilluly Loop at a crawl speed after setting off their four pack of manned helpers at Soldier Summit.... (more)

Goat Boats! 25 year old “Goat Boats” BNSF 1016 and 1018 in first merger scheme of the BNSF lead the SLAPVO from Denver on October 2, 2022.

Budapest Keleti (Eastern) station (Hungarian: Keleti pályaudvar) is the main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary. The station stands where Rákóczi út splits t... (more)

I happened to be in Moab, UT when a friend reminded me that the once a week UP potash local runs on a Friday, wait thats today! All of my previous plans for the day were now pushed to the side as ... (more)

Autumn on the Hi Line
On October 8, 2018, a westbound BNSF grain train exits Tunnel 4 and curves along the Middle Fork of the Flathead River just east of West Glacier (Belton), Montana.

Unfortunately for those familiar with CW McCall's song "The Silverton Train," the Animas River Gorge only finds itself 230-ish feet from rail to river, as opposed to the 400-feet McCall ... (more)

On a cloudy august morning a BNSF Z train races over the Skykomish river.

The Delaware and Lackawanna Heritage Unit passes the town of Cresson after dark on a Norfolk Southern intermodal train. Over the course of 1 second, the drone kept pace with the train, creating th... (more)

CSX Grain Train Eastbound up and over the viaduct bridge in Evansville Indiana with leader CSX 914. The fields surrounding the bridge are all Soybeans this year.

For a few days this summer the usual SD70 pair for the gas local was broken up as #4408 was taken offline and replaced with #253, an SD40. This was a rare opportunity to see a conventional cab bac... (more)

A flared SD70MAC leads a short Q693 over Copper Creek headed south along the former Clinchfield.

As a moderate rainstorm rolls over the Rocky Mountains, BNSF empty grain train X INBBYN9 09M charges east over Skyline Trestle on a rainy, spring afternoon. Photo taken from Skyline, Montana on Ju... (more)

A lone SD40-2 (NS 6088) Local Decatur Alabama unit crosses the causeway over the TN River on its way to Madison Alabama for an industry nightly pickup of cars to bring back to the local Norfolk So... (more)

MRL's "Night Gas" accelerates out of a work window near Alberton, MT crossing Fish Creek trestle on the 4th subdivision.