NS Extra 'High and Wide' move 052, is seen here grinding East through Lilly, PA with a single SD40-2 in the lead. The train included GE export units for Indonesia, tractors, steel slabs, large st... (more)

Venerable Amtrak 929 leads southbound Northeast Regional 163 across the Bush River in sweet summer evening light. It'll be sad to see these go...

For a period in the Spring of '16, coal volumes had dropped so low that even the nearly GE-exclusive Northern California began seeing the EMD road power that was usually to the Powder River Basin.

On one of very the last sunrises for this iconic signal bridge, an LA-bound well-car repo storms under it.

A short and all UPS Z races west on the Stockton Sub towards UPS's North Bay, CA facility. There this hotshot will drop its cut and take light power back to BNSF's Richmond, CA Yard for servicing... (more)

Q438 seen trundling over the mighty Susquehanna on a humid as ever Mid-Atlantic morning. They will be taking the siding here at West Aikin to meet hotshot Q033. As consolation the BE Dispatcher d... (more)

'High and Wide' move 052 comes easing downhill, having just cleared CP MO in Cresson. With just one SD40-2 for the heavy train of locomotives, metals, and tractors, they are just creeping downgra... (more)

A 2x2 soda ash train lugs its way up to the west end of Reverse siding at a steady crawl. From here on west, the railroad levels out and it should be a relatively smooth run to Nampa.

OT-1 on final approach into Hayden with loads fresh from the mine.

The RBBX Circus Train is back in our nation's capital! Here, Benning Yard local crew B701 is pulling the animal cars off of the main consist so that they can be respotted onto the Anacostia Stora... (more)

With the animal cars already spotted by the B701, the extra B642 crew shoves the next cut of cars down into Benning Yard for unloading.

With station work complete and a long road ahead, Amtrak 6 highballs Martinez! The San Joaquin to the left was holding out of the station while No. 6 worked so that they wouldn't cut between them ... (more)

A clean-faced veteran electric leads Northeast Regional 161 south through WOOD Interlocking.

BNSF's KCK-NBY Z train is seen here splitting the famous triple searchlights that stand just Northwest of Mojave. Unfortunately this sight is not long for the world as these signals are slated fo... (more)

One of the first trains we were treated with at Hill 582 was the high priority UP ZLADV running on BNSF Trackage Rights. Even more of a treat was the matched set of UP SD70M's, making for a truly... (more)