The east deadlines at NRE are still quite colorful despite the recent purge in equipment. In the foreground is an ex-IC Paducah rebuilt SD20, originally Southern SD24 6331.

Storage cars rot away at the inactive Bates Branch loadout deep in the C&O coalfields.

The deadlines east of the shop at NRE are thinning, but there are still some need engines to see: Built as an SD45 as CNW 913, it was sold and rebuilt as an SD40M-2 as SP 8670. At the merger, UP p... (more)

The Chicago skyline stands tall 23 miles away as ArcelorMittal SW1500 #111, one of the many locomotives on the #1 leader in steel's roster, shoves a bottle train into the massive East Chicago plan... (more)

Rolling through San Bernardino is BNSF Railway train Z-WSPLAC9-24A, a Priority UPS-LTL Intermodal train ticking off the final 65 miles of its trip from Willow Springs IL to Los Angeles. The WSPLA... (more)

Everything is not A-Okay with this 50' box car! AOK 473311 lost its door when this load shifted and the rolled paper is on the verge of falling out. UP 7491 east was notified of the shifted load w... (more)

The BNSF Chillicothe Sub (former Santa Fe) is well known for following the Des Plaines River. Here, we see a bird's eye view of the BNSF's Joliet Yard, located right on the outskirts of downtown. ... (more)

NIWX 558 is the engine of choice for the new Davenport Industrial Railroad which operates at the end of the Canadian Pacific's Eldridge Spur. The DIR currently operates a transload facility, switc... (more)

Charging into the future. Amtrak/Amtrak California has taken delivery of new Siemens Venture coaches for testing. The semi-permanently coupled five car set represents the future of train travel fo... (more)

L536 (Glenn-Kirk) started out at Glenn Yard with a trio of CN GE's. Then, for reasons unknown, an EJ&E SD38-2 was added to the point. #657 is seen here at 39th Street, continuing its southbound jo... (more)

Surviving in 2020. Home Built D-500 and Plymouth ML-8 rest in the high dry sun of the San Luis Valley. D-500 a Frankenstein chain driven locomotive built of various railroad, truck and tractor p... (more)

Is it Dead forever? US Steel laid rails to Atlantic City Iron Mine in 1962. The railroad hauled ore out of the mine to a connection with the Union Pacific until 1983. The railroad crossed t... (more)

A very rare sight in 2020, A caboose bringing up the rear of a revenue freight train. Here is an Ex-N&W caboose on the end of NS 377. I have been chasing trains for close to 7 years now, and this ... (more)

Aerial tree trimming along the New England Central is currently underway. The project will take the crews from Vernon VT to Saint Albans VT and is expected to take three months.

Field of....poop. The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (Sanitary District of Chicago, for short) is the only railroad in America (and possibly the world?) that transports... (more)