Cruising gracefully down the North Bank of the Columbia River George, another load of grain destined for Western Washington elevators and export overseas looks beautiful on a fine fall afternoon.
Twenty years ago, much of the far west side of the Salt Lake Valley was a windswept plain with fields of winter wheat and a handful of industrial rail lines. Cotton Belt GP60 9671 leads a 15 car M... (more)
Montandon: Ending the day the last rays of sun illuminate the highest hills, this train of FERRONOR coming from CODELCO foundry and copper plant in Potrerillos, negotiates a closed horsesho... (more)
This was somewhere around Alamosa, CO. I was vacationing in the Midwest and happen to spot this from a local road, maybe half a mile away. It was on a very rarely used segment of track, possibly a... (more)
One of SQMs boxcabs hauls a load of nitrate down to Tocopilla, which you can see in the background. In about a kilometer, the train will arrive at the reverso switchback, where they need to run th... (more)