Located on the outskirts of the small community of Pixley, one of the J.D. Heiskell & Co. grain facilities stands tall against the sky on the flat floor of the Central Valley. As one drives by thi... (more)

Locomotive #49 is seen wearing Freeport McMoran's new paint scheme as it heads down the 5% grade to interchange with the AZER.

Painted up in a nifty paint scheme sporting Rail Logic and lettered for RJAX. This is another newly opened facility dealing mostly with frac sand.

IBCX 2003 at Sweetwater's Cape and Son's facility.

7 miles east of Kosse, Texas is the large mine at Oak Grove, run by the largest power provider in the state, Lunminate. They operate 2 train sets that bring coal 13 miles south to the Oak Grove St... (more)

Hallett Dock's former N&W NW-2 positions cars of bentonite clay for unloading at their number 5 dock in Duluth. Piles of limestone are on the right.

Western Forest Products SW1200 #302 leads the afternoon Beaver Cover train over East Fork trestle on Vancouver Island. WFP's Englewood Railway remains the last logging railroad in North America.

A former-SOO GP30, now MJRX 711 is tied down outside the Crystal Valley COOP elevator in Madalia, MN. MJRX 711 was built in '63 as SOO 711, then went to the Wisconsin Central as WC 711.

This morning, the Sanitation District of Chicago ran a public education tour for local municipal agencies. For the occasion, they brought out their MP15 (which was repainted into this blue and whi... (more)

Stone train moving to NS interchange on former Reading Company W&N Branch

An EMD SW9 awaits it's next assignment in Kingston, Ohio at Valley grain in Kingston, Ohio. The lineage of this particular locomotive is not certain however we are working to find it out. We kno... (more)

It appears its service life is over: The Peoria Locomotive Works PLD110, purchased new in 1994, will soon be moved off-site and most likely sold. The locomotive had been damaged last year and ... (more)

Recently delivered Railserve Leaf DKPX 2543 shoves a 10 car cut of Central Appalachian coal into the rotary car dumper. Plans are to remove the rotary dumper later this year and convert it to bott... (more)

CSDX 3, a 63-year old SW1 owned by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation of Greater Chicago, heads east under Harlem Avenue. This railroad is the only one in America that carries human waste. After d... (more)

Earlier this week, I was turned onto this interesting switching operation in suburban KC by Zach Pumphery, and with free time at my disposal, I knew I HAD to get out to shoot them. This is Spac... (more)