Western competitors wait for the torch out east.

At first, spotting this from down the road, I anticipated a complete F40PH. I was disappointing by a cruel optical illusion.

Two ex-N&W SD40-2s and a matching caboose switch the yard of their first owner, passing long lines of dead NS locomotives.

BNSF's Office Car Special meets a coal train in Pueblo, with a rough passenger car on the FRA track in the background.

Ohio South Central 104 creeps through Coalton with one hopper for Aluchem.

Coal empties throttle up and leave the double-track of Vesuvius, splitting the classic N&W signals that still guard this line for now...with the clock ticking.

A disembodied SD40 cab gazes at fellow ex-Ohio Central units, probably thinking of better days. Taken on LTEX property with permission.

After a summer storm rolled through Chama, we were rewarded with a rainbow over the Cumbres and Toltec shops.

The final NS southbound 380 is about to enter Langsville Tunnel for the last time. One more train, northbound 381, will pass through this tunnel before the rails fall silent.

Amtrak 41's bug-splattered nose meets the ancient semaphores still protecting Bernal, a hundred years after they were installed.

The Ohio South Central train is a couple miles away from it's destination and riding on DT&I rails as it rolls through neighborhoods and backyards.

After a 6-month absence of chemical traffic north of Nitro, WV, three ex-SP SD45s led the first train at 25mph in beautiful afternoon light.

611 crosses under a highway overpass on her first of two runs on Sunday. She passes a MOW train tied down, with one of NS's SD70M-2s pointing long-hood forward.

Pere Marquette 1225, the very same Berkshire animated in the 2004 movie The Polar Express, gets ready to head out of Owosso on the so-named train.

For a short distance, Ervin Road and the WV Secondary occupy almost the same space, with the former taking the high ground. You can just make out the road in this shot, towering over the S-curve.