Westbound Z train after a lengthy MOW delay.

BNSF 2857 (GP39-2) muscles a freight towards the Broomfield Siding on the Front Range Sub.

One of the many intermodal trains that traverse the Mojave Desert grinds up the 1% grade of Goffs Hill at Essex on BNSF's Needles Subdivision.

DPU's on a southbound coal train for Duke Energy at Brice shove through Toecane on the former Clinchfield, with the Seaboard heritage unit bringing up the rear.

The first of many such arrangements to come, three of four new repaints for US Sugar. We have ex-503 (nee-B&M 315) leading ex-501 (nee-MILW 184) and the as-yet-unlettered 3001 (SD45 shell, Tacoma... (more)

As the first rain in several weeks is showering the West Virginia Mountains as a severe drought has plagued the region recently, we see A&O local Z830 bringing two loads of lumber from JF Allen ba... (more)

Intermodal NS 279 heads west over the Roanoke River in Wabun, VA.

Rolling southbound on the Seattle Subdivision, BNSF SD75M No. 268 rolls through Steilacoom's Sunnyside Beach Park with a mixed Manifest.

METX 502, one of Metra's popular SD70MACH locomotives, leads an outbound through downtown Roselle, IL and into some rich golden light.

With the full moon rising over the Kittatinny Mountains, the SU99 passes the Port Jervis station on its way north.

A couple of CSS GP38-2s, led by #2008, lead a westbound South Shore freight through the Ogden Dunes, IN station.

ONT 2104 and ONT 1800 lead 308 through Boston Creek on their trip to Englehart.

Livin' On The Edge

The cool, crisp air of the Animas Canyon is ruled by the sounds of the raging Rio de Las Animas. It rules the night air here, drowning out much of anything ... (more)

Bridges At Plattsmouth | During golden hour on the morning of Monday, September 2, 2024, a westbound intermodal train crosses one of the bridges over the Missouri River from Iowa into Nebra... (more)

A BNSF manifest is exercising trackage rights over the UP from Provo to Denver.