A single KCS AC44 leads B650 over the Catawba River at Mount Holly shortly after departing Charlotte.

Kansas City Southern #4541 (AC4400CW) leads the Q train through Palmer Lake and past a family working on catching some fish for lunch.

KCS Belle 4541 (AC4400CW) leads the Q train south on the Joint Line through Castle Rock, Colorado.

KCS 4541 (AC4400CW) leads a freight through Sedalia, Colorado on the Joint Line.

KCS 4541 (AC4400CW) leads a freight through Sedalia, Colorado on the Joint Line.

Dawn is breaking and the rising sun makes a brief appearance through some cracks in the clouds on the morning of September 15, 2017. A large gathering of Union Pacific GE locomotives await servici... (more)

The air is frozen and dawn is taking over the blue hour as Canadian Pacific 8137 (AC4400CW) leads a grain train towards the signal at Keenesburg, Colorado.

L620 sails east into Raleigh in the early morning.

A Union Pacific coal load slowly rolls past Eisele siding (formerly Clay), Colorado, on the afternoon of June 9, 2013. Waiting for the eastbound train down below is a UP coal empty sitting at the ... (more)

It takes some dexterity and flexibility to install a new water pump inside Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6227 inside the locomotive shop South Morrill, Nebraska, on September 15, 2017. Due of the ... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6300 is on Track 7 inside the railroad’s South Morrill Locomotive Facility in Nebraska to change out a bad order traction motor on September 14, 2017.

Yesterday was Taco, erm... Wednesday, on the Huntington Sub, as KCSM 4538 led a westbound manifest. I was still in bed when I received word they were working at N459, the west end of Nampa Yard, a... (more)

The city lights of Bakersfield silhouette the cut at Sandcut as the EOT of a Northbound UP train rounds the last curve of the Tehachapi Pass, before reaching Bakersfield.

A pair of year old Southern Pacific AC4400WCs leads a westbound freight downgrade around Tehachapi Loop. The cleanliness of the GEs and a lack of graffiti on the freight cars dates this photo.

With freight train congestion ahead, a slick move by the BNSF dispatcher, at least for the passengers of Amtrak’s train 5, crossed the westbound California Zephyr over to the south track or Main... (more)