A Loram ballast cleaning train passes under the decommissioned ATSF signal bridge at Lisbon Road, north of Marceline, Missouri. You can see the signal bridge still in place, but the signal heads ... (more)

Low clouds hang in Cajon Pass on a December morning. BNSF no. 7112 and mates appear out of the fog pulling stacks eastbound up the hill through Blue Cut.

After a long wait, this westbound empty coal train appeared after coming off the Missouri River bridge. Continuous rains have raised the water level here.

A BNSF crew spots empty hopper cars at the Envirotech/Hallett 8 dock in Superior as the vessel Algoma Sault departs after unloading a cargo of salt at the dock.

One of Three active H2 SD60Ms lead the 457 job through Lisle with a former BN SD40 in tow. Nice to find this racing an outbound Metra.

A CN crude ore train using two BNSF horsepower payback units pulls 118 cars south towards the Fairlane plant on a nice spring afternoon.

A BNSF All-Rail taconite train heads south on the CN Missabe Sub with a CN crew in charge heading for Keenan yard after loading at USS Minntac. Once at Keenan a BNSF crew will take over and head ... (more)

A westbound grain train is plodding up the steep grade from Pica to Yampai summit. After surmounting the grade in another mile, it will be downhill for over a hundred miles to Needles.

Southbound manifest passing one of many slide detectors.

A late morning southbound manifest has just entered the canyon. The old grade from the Deschutes Railroad Company can be seen on the east bank.

An ex-BN SD60M leads a southbound BNSF local through Joliet.

BNSF locomotives working on CN for horsepower payback handle an ore train at United Taconite while the plant's contract switcher moves a car.

On one of those exhilarating mornings with the cool air fresh with the scent of pines, the 4871 East is pouring on the power for the grade to Marias Pass. The train is stretched out across the Jav... (more)

If Bobby Troup had followed US 2 along the Great Northern instead of Route 66 beside the Santa Fe, he might have written an entirely different tune: You go through Minot, Essex and Sandpoint but d... (more)

ATSF 102 leads a piggyback train at Pinole, CA on March 7, 1997.