CSX 1972 was a nice lead engine on the front of this M602-16 catching the first rays of sunlight on a spring saturday morning in Henderson Point, MS. The massive M602 hit the west end of the bridg... (more)

Glass at the Pass. Southbound CN Coal Buckets slow roll over Manchac Pass, Louisiana, on a calm spring afternoon. This C738 was running headlong into the wake of an Amtrak-fueled mess that saw t... (more)

A BNSF Intermodal Train departs the Twin Cities under a cool winter sunset. An H1 Dash 9 pair running 1x1 leads the train into the cold night ahead towards LaCrosse Wisconsin.

One of the American success story railroads is the modern day Mississippi Export Railroad. Celebrating 100 years independently owned this year is the small shortline headquartered in Moss Point, M... (more)

KCS Manifest Freight CXSH from New Orleans to Shreveport, LA, is seen here at sunrise descending the Huey P Long Bridge superstructure into Lobdell, Louisiana. A lucky pick-up of a track warrant f... (more)

Norfolk Southern mixed freight train 131 is seen cruising along the long lakeshore of Lake Ponchatrain as they approach the Crescent City of New Orleans, Louisiana, just after sunrise on a beautif... (more)

CN G884 rolls south at the prescribed 25mph over the Manchac Pass drawbridge behind the Wisconsin Central Heritage Unit. The 3069 was one of 5 paint schemes from predecessor railroads that Canadia... (more)

Good friend and engineer Larry Smoak brings his empty G889 north over the IC Manchac Pass drawbridge late one warm spring evening. The lead BNSF AC4400 catches the very last of the golden rays of ... (more)

CN empty unit coke train U701 is seen cruising out over the Bonnet Carre Spillway just moments after sunset. A run through combination of a UP SD70Ace and a CSX ES44AH make up the power for this e... (more)

Battling some hazy/high clouds is the fully loaded KCS business train. The governor of Louisiana, CP CEO Keith Creel, KCS CEO Pat Ottensmeyer, Amtrak president Steven Gardner, and the head of the ... (more)

After a mostly cloudy day a small group of us gathered at the western end of the Kansas City Southern's Bonnet Carre Spillway bridge to shoot the outbound business train as they began their deadhe... (more)

When you begin meeting trains in New Orleans at one pm, and don't escape the confines of UP and CN at their various snared junctions, you tend to end up much later out of town than you thought. Su... (more)

KCS B-KCLR has just stopped in the small town of Ashdown, Arkansas, to let a few people off, and is now floating along at 60mph leaving town. The combined KCS and CP business train was in the midd... (more)

KCS 1 Rich Mountain, Arkansas. We are deep in the Ouachita Mountain range as KCS 1, and the combination CPKC business train roar up the famed Rich Mountain grade on a moody morning. The southbo... (more)

KCS 1 and company look wonderful in the beautiful morning sunlight as they cross a small wooden trestle near Anacoco, Louisiana. The Business train is on day 3 of its multi-day trip to Laredo, Tex... (more)