How often can you fit 3 different ARR GP's into a frame with a rebuilt DMIR tunnel motor?

SDC 4 brings hauls a long string of side dump cars back from the storage pits. Did you know this is the only railroad in America that transports human waste. Too bad they didn't use SW1 #2 on toda... (more)

SLSF 1630 pulls past one of the many operating semaphores at IRM.

CN/GTW 5815 is one of many units on hand today at NRE, including GTW 5817, NREX SW1500 2531, GP10 113, and Alaska Railroad 3004, 2801, and 2804 (not pictured).

In a place where I fondly remember 5-8 IAIS Paducah rebuilds passing me in run 8 throttling out of Joliet, Sept. 2008 brings me a pair of DPU Gevo's in run 8 grinding out of Joliet... Quite the ey... (more)

UP 428 will be the next operating steam engine on the IRM's roster. Hopefully this beautiful engine will be complete within a year, looks good doesn't it......

A rare daylight chase presents itself as NS 31K swings around the Schneider wye operating over what is affectionately known as the "Kankakee Belt." Today's power was none too shabby, being led by ... (more)

Freshly rebuilt GP38-2's, lettered for NREX 3801 and 02, sit DIT on the point of their own train.

Freshly repainted AVR 2008 basks in the diffused sunlight along with a former NSM SW, an ARR GP49, and DMIR 418 - sitting outside the paint shops... oh I hope it ain't so.

No the picture isn't crooked... the crew happened to expire on an elevated curve and pictured is the new relief crew exchanging stories and boarding for the continued trip west.

As AMTK 04 backs into to CUS, AMTK 03 blasts off. An interesting meet indeed.

Finally an over/under at Lavergne. CN local R953 strolls west light power over BNSF M CNIKCK (CN 6011) while BNSF Z CHCSSE (BNSF 5505) makes up his train in the background.

The Belt job with BRC 586 and GMTX 2633 switch CN's Hawthorne Yard.

The Iowa Interstate's Gevo's make their maiden run to Blue Island on an ethanol train bound for the CSXT. The train is operating with a DPU, 510 in the lead, and 502 trailing on the rear. Who knew... (more)

DM&E 6078 leads IC&E 6430, ex IMRL 208, and DM&E 6370 east on a mainly grain train originating at the grain bins of Huron, SD.