With talks of a tornado out break imminent, threatening storm clouds linger in the area as CSX M503 grinds upgrade to cross the Ohio River into Kentucky.

Stop, Look & Listen
A surprising scene unfolds as M526 heads north through Opelika while a hi-railer quickly shuttles across the diamond before it. I’m sure this scene occurs at a... (more)

Working the Lead. Y102 switches cars on the scrap lead near the State Fairgrounds.

Westbound freight above new ballast and evidence of recent resurfacing before the advent of the ubiquitous 4000s (I hope to live long enough to miss them). This line got heavier 136 lb. rail in 2... (more)

After meeting 12Z at Arcadia, NS 15T passes the CPLs at Kinsey making it's final leg of the trip to Roanoke. 6 flashes used

Orange line L-train (direction Midway Airport) is approaching Clark/Lake Station in the northwest corner of Chicago's Loop. There is visible Pink Line Train in the background.

On Union Pacific westbound intermodal train ILTLB-16 were a high number of containers with their doors open (I photographed 5, but there were at least 12), and many looked as if some of their cont... (more)

In 50+ years of railfanning, I'd never seen this before!

As Union Pacific intermodal train ILBG4-17 (Long Beach CA to Chicago IL) rolls through Beaumont, just about... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

Faux Bonnet At Doodletown Bight. CSX B118-08 was a robust 12,000+ feet of empty ethanol cars and DPUs as it crossed Doodletown Bight from Iona Island to Bear Mountain, New York on the eveni... (more)

A lineup of Norfolk Southern and CSX engines sits patiently at the Progress Rail shop in Russell, Kentucky, contemplating their next chapter. Among them, the last of the SD80MACs awaits either a r... (more)

Union Pacific’s Rio Grande heritage unit brings an empty set of coal hoppers bound for storage to the Mississippi Export’s yard in Helena, MS. After interchanging from CSX in Pascagoula, they ... (more)

Running through an alley and crossing Main Street in the heart of Greenville, Pennsylvania, the CN Greenville Subdivision passes between the Old Town Building and the First National Bank building.... (more)

Dirtiest locomotive I have ever seen.

On August 8, 1967 Southern Pacific FP7 6455 and a B-unit arrived with a nine-car No. 99 the Los Angeles-bound Coast Daylight, crossing the ATSF tracks at Mission Junction near the Los Angeles... (more)