Breezy Spring Morning | As a southbound grain train crawls up the west (timetable north) slope of the Rich Mountain grade in western Arkansas, a brisk wind carries clouds through the sky in... (more)
One Year Later | Just as day breaks on April 14, 2024 - the one-year anniversary of the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern merger - a southbound CPKC train approaches the top of the moun... (more)
U30Cs 3006 and 3001 haul coal loads from Republic mine.
"R211s at Broad Channel"
On the afternoon of March 26th, 2024, a 10-car train of Kawasaki built MTA New York City Transit R211A subway cars pulls into Broad Channel station ... (more)
Trailing units on this westbound manifest are Dash 9-44CW 621, GP50 3811 and SD40-2 5158.
When Chicago & North Western placed their order for C44-9W's. They decided to save a little money by ordering them without air conditioning. So soon as the temperatures got warm in the coal Fields... (more)
Eastbound on the west end bridge. Trailing units are SD45B-2 5516, SD40E EMDX 6431 and Dash 9-44CW 744.
SD80MACs 4100 and 4125 head west on the Boston line.
Ever so often, something very bad would happen on the Santa Fe transcon. The main would get blocked, and Santa Fe was forced to run it's hottest trains over the Union Pacific. It was an awesome tr... (more)
AM At Armourdale | Forty minutes past sunrise on a windy Saturday, April 6, 2024, a westbound manifest train approaches Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard in Kansas City, KS. Having just cros... (more)
Back when they were brands new. Union Pacific SD70M's 4734 and 4733 make their way through Lakepoint, Utah. The Oquirrh Mountains have been layer with fresh snow over night. UP 4734, 7433 could po... (more)
Eastbound coal loads. Trailing units are SD40-2 3255 and C30-7 8004.
Tunnel Time: CSXT 4729 leads a loaded Herzog train eastbound out of the Wasp Run Tunnel in Buchanan, Virginia, along the CSX James River Subdivision.
Union Pacific ALCO FA1 1610 and B unit mate lead 114 cars east at 55 MPH near Alda Nebraska in 1958. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
GP60 4028 leads SD45B 5502 and EMDX SD40 6501 on an eastbound.