The evening hotshot to Portland curves through Home Valley in golden light.
Chicago Hot Shot! One of the highest priority trains from Chicago, Z-CHCPTL, coasts through Naperville on its way north to Portland Oregon.
In the last rays of sunlight, a Heritage I Dash 9 leads a Chicago to Portland Z-train westward out of Grand Forks, detouring over the Hillsboro and Devils Lake Subdivisions due to a major derailme... (more)
Aftermath of a collision with a gravel truck along US Highway 2 west of Bainville. Four GEs were involved; all were eventually shipped away. See photo 395279 for a view of the front of the 1123.
Three EMDs on a Z-train in 2009? Thanks to some of the BNSF GEVOs being taken out of service, a few EMDs are back out of storage.
Three shiny new ES44C4s on their first revenue run lead the Z-CHCPTL2-21 past the diamonds in Moorhead. These ES44C4s are essentially ES44ACs, but instead of having 6 traction motors, they have 4,... (more)
A trio of brand new ES44C4s on their first revenue run lead the Z-CHCPTL2-21 over the Stockwood Fill near Glyndon. These ES44C4s are essentially ES44ACs, but instead of having 6 traction motors, t... (more)
Tonight's Chicago-Portland is a little behind it's usual schedule as it heads through Frazee.
The engineer checks out his train in the mirror as the last minutes of sunlight start to fade.
Priority UPS/LTL Intermodal Train from Chicago, IL (Cicero Yard) - Portland, OR rolls west through the Northern Illinois countryside.
