The Great Race To Ogden is well underway and in the way is the tiny town of Carter Wyoming. About a half mile out, the town of less than 10 people is about to become the center of the railfan u... (more)

Big Boy Across the Basin: Union Pacific's Transcon 150 Special leaves Rawlins, Wyoming as it heads out across the Great Divide Basin. At the front of the train is the Union Pacific 4014 &qu... (more)

DONE!: With this word, the Transcontinental Railroad was declared completed on May 10th, 1869. One day short of 150 years later, the Union Pacific Railroad held a ceremony in Ogden, Utah to... (more)

Big Boy's Return to the Rails: Recently restored Big Boy locomotive 4014 leads the Union Pacific Transcon 150 special toward Rock Springs, Wyoming on its debut excursion.

A Bright Day for Brightline: The new passenger service Brightline nears Miami Central Station as it rolls through neighborhoods on the north side of the city. Eventually, this train will pr... (more)

Green and red wrapped bi-level commuter cars clash with the blue locomotive of a Metra UP North Line train parked in weekend storage on the lower level at the Kenosha station.

A SB CN freight rolls across the defect detector on the former SOO/WC trackage in Wheatland enroute to Chicago.

A former CNW caboose (pushing platform) sits among the tied-up yard engines at the UP's Waukegan Yard Office.

The Rapid City yard engine has tied-up early in anticipation of the July 4th holiday shut-down.

The Waukegan switch run takes the south leg of the wye at Kenosha to head out the Farm Subdivision for switching on UP Milwaukee Subdivision (former CNW New Line)

DOTX 2000 leads the Coldwater - Montpelier turn as they run south through Angola Indiana with a rather short train in tow. This unit has always interested me due to its unique paint scheme with a ... (more)

High Hoods in Blue. Its blue hour here just outside of Toledo at NS's homestead yard where we find NS 5209 a former Southern Railway GP38-2 being illuminated by a yard light awaiting its call to s... (more)

As a local freight in the siding prepares to makes its set-out, a NB double-stack train passes on the adjacent mainline.

A NB CN freight, powered by CN, CitiRail and BNSF locomotives, has entered the 13,000 foot long siding at North Duplainville and is preparing to set-out cars for the Waukesha area.

A NB Denton County A-Train DMU skirts an inlet of Lake Dallas as it departs the Lewisville Station. Busy I35E looms in the background.