Q513 has successfully ascended and descended the Cumberland plateau, a finger of which is directly behind the train.

Sometime in the 1840's, the Nashville & Chattanooga RR decided it would be easier to go straight up the Cumberland Escarpment, resulting in a 1.8% grade that has required helpers for its entire ex... (more)

A loaded welded rail train from Fairburn, GA to Deshler, OH heads north up the Chattanooga Sub, crossing the Fox River and/or the TVA created Tims Ford Lake which was completed in 1970.

Seen from the back of the Goat Farm Arts Center, intermodal Q028 departs Atlanta and will arrive Chicago in a little under 48 hours.

For a town of less than 3,000 people, the Staples Station is impressive. It looks like the front end of 7890 was hastily repaired and painted after an altercation with a vehicle.

An evening westbound Northstar stops at the Coon Rapids Station.

The Camden Job brings a cut of doublestacks from Shoreham Yard to Humboldt Yard with a little old and new for power crossing the Mississippi River.

Helpers in the Twin Cities? UP helper HSSRP 05 with a recently re-activated SD60M/SD60 combo, shove petroleum coke train ORPIK 04 out of the Mississippi River onto the UP Adams Line. The helpers... (more)

A two hour late #8 Empire Builder drops down Shortline Hill and will shortly make it's Twin Cities stop at St Paul Union Depot.

It may look like a race, but it's really the turtle vs. the sloth. Both Upper River Services LLC's Itasca and Union Pacific's YSP80 03 are making less than 10 mph through Dayton's Bluff.

A Blue Island, IL/IHB to Minot, ND auto rack train rolls past the 'cutoff' at Union Junction.

Looking pretty close to when it was delivered to the GB&W in 1965, 313 has kept the same number and had only two owners during it's 53 year life. 313 has been frequenting the Hugo Job, which was ... (more)

The Hiawatha Job crosses the Mississippi on the old Milwaukee RR high bridge to service flour mills on the south side of town and passing behind Prince's childhood home, dubbed the "Purple Ra... (more)

Unfortunately, someone in La Crosse decided to add a pair of NS units on top of the GP28 & Warbonnnet C44-9W, but the scenery makes up for the mediocre locomotives. This is the La Crosse-Northtow... (more)

UP YSPMP 03 returns from East Minneapolis Yard to South St Paul Yard. It was nice to catch a trio of standard cabs on Dayton's Bluff.