UP 6922 rumbles south with a massive manifest freight on the Chester Sub near Valmeyer, Illinois. 6922 was built as a convertible unit capable of accepting a 6000 HP prime mover, but the conversi... (more)
It's not SP's beets with a brace of SD9's but a reposition auto rack from Milpitas, CA to Nogales, AZ will do. UP's Coast Sub south of San Jose has been dwindled down to baretables and empty autos... (more)
It has been about ten minutes since the sun peeked over the eastern horizon. Early morning haze still clings to the ground around the Denver skyline to the right. A quartet of GEs leads on a coal ... (more)
On September 13th (Friday the Thirteenth), severe flooding washed out a fill on UPs Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. 24 days later, crews are still working to get the line completely reopened. Here, a s... (more)
Who's railroad is it? UP 6944 followed by Iowa Interstate 714 leads a string of NS coal hoppers as they reach the crest of the hill between Amana and Walford on CRANDIC's Amana line. Actually the... (more)
UP 7178 takes up the DP duties of an eastbound coal train.
A westbound empty coal train rolls through Mt. Vernon near sunset.
Westbound empty coal drag E960 leans into the super-elevated curve at CP 17
A unit ethanol train approaches the CSX/WLE diamond at MP37 on the CSX Greenwich Sub
Empty coal train from Weston Power Plant near Wausau, WI goes onto CP Main Track 2 at Raymor. This location is in Ft. McCoy just west of Tunnel City, WI.
Empty Coal Train from the Weston Power Plant near Wausau, WI heads north along the Mississippi River. (Canon EOS20D, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM)