South Shore's class unit GP38-2 #2000, and two other locomotives ease a coal train bound for Arcellor Mittal onto the North Side at CP 46.5. This area known as Bailly or Baillytown, is quite a bus... (more)

South Shore GP38-2 #2003 and two CSX GE's depart Lincoln Avenue Yard in Michigan City, with coal loads for Arcellor Mittal Steel Mill at Burns Harbor, IN. The train was staged outside of NIPSCO's ... (more)

The Joliet Rocket storms East towards Chicago, passing under the Rock Island Searchlight Singals, with NKP Berkshire 765 leading the way. This is the first Nickel Plate steam locomotive to run the... (more)

LSRC's Flint turn heads South towards it's point of interchange with CSX, as it passes the aged Pere Marquette signals at Mt. Morris.

Utah Railway MK50-3 #5004, and four other UTR locomotives assault the ruling 2.4% grade of Soldier Summit with 104 loaded coal hoppers in tow.

Union Pacific's rare once a week "Potash Local" returns from the namesake industry with two GP40 locomotives in charge of 7 loaded hoppers . We weren't the only ones photographing the tr... (more)

SOO Line #6053, one of the two remaining "Candy Apple Red" SD60's heads down the Belt Railway of Chicago's South Chicago Yard connection at CP 509. I would love to have been able to see ... (more)

SOO Line #6053, one of the two remaining "Candy Apple Red" SD60's heads west under one of the two remaining NYC signal cantilevers, on a beautiful day in South Bend, IN.

During N&W 611's glorious return to Roanoke, we see her thundering north at 40 MPH near Ruffin, NC.

Union Pacific SD40N #1587, and three other motors round a curve, and past a deer that apparently did not run fast enough.

Union Pacific SD40N #1587, and three other motors fly around a manifest on Main 1 with train LFA501. It's not every day you get to see these units doing 60MPH out on the mainline, as seen here jus... (more)

A UP stack train races East into the early morning sun, under threatening skies forming over the Nebraska plains.

Bessemer and Lake Erie SD38-2 #878 is alive and well once again, as CN has brought it back to life, after sitting in the deadline at Markham Yard for several years. Here we see CN train L517, the ... (more)

Montana Rail Link SD45's 318, 351, and 382 roar Eastbound, leaving the Crazy Mountains behind, and charges into the first rays of sunlight near Big Timber, Montana with BNSF's Spokane, Washington ... (more)