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)

With fresh paint on the point, S743's train nears the top of the hill at Hargwen.

S743's 198 car loaded sand train slowly climbs up the hill between Galloway and Medicine Lodge. A second main track is being built along the northside of the current mainline.

CN SD75IACC 8302 leads over 28000 tons of sand (198 cars) west on the Edson Sub between Bickerdike West and Galloway.

Loaded sand train S743 departs Edson behind brand new CN SD75IACC 8302.

Freshly rebuilt CN SD75IACC 8302 basks in the afternoon sun at Edson, AB.

CSX mixed freight M520 rolls through Ocean Springs, MS on a late summer evening along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The northbound is led by a matching pair of YN2 AC44s, a sight that has become inc... (more)

A pair of CP SD40-2's guide an empty ballast train over the Ottertail River.

CP train no.420 heads south through mile 30 of the Mactier Sub south of Palgrave with a AC44CWM up front and an older AC44 on the rear. The fall colour is just past peak, as can be seen on the hil... (more)

Here we see a CN stack train heading east past the searchlights at mile 2 of the Halton Sub, shot from the Weston Rd overpass on a crisp fall morning. Not sure if this was a northbound for the wes... (more)

CP stacker no.113 soars over the Trent River bridge in Trenton with a lashup typical of the new "CPKC" merger... ("""merger""")

A solid pair of GM locomotives sit pretty on the head end of CN's no.546 local outside of Home Lumber off Birchmount Rd in the east end of the city. After swapping loads for empties, they will hea... (more)

Although traffic on the legendary Tennessee Pass is dead, the line is not gone. The Rio Grande's Tennessee Pass line was the highest active mainline railroad mountain pass in the United States unt... (more)

CP stacker no.113 rolls northbound past the Palgrave pond with two red GE's up front...

In the last few minutes of daylight, a pair of former Burlington Northern GP40s lead BNSF’s Everett, WA to Sumas, WA manifest through the countryside near Nugents Corner, WA on May 29th, 2024.