Scaring up the birds, a Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western corn train passes milepost 379 rolling through the wetlands a mile east of Braddock, North Dakota, on August 30, 2018. The train is powere... (more)

Painted in its signature Rio Grande tribute scheme, Pennsylvania Northeastern Railroad SD40-2W 5342 (ex-CN 5342) sits in Lansdale, PA on the night of Saturday, May 18, 2019. Fireworks in the backg... (more)

The Mississippi River crested at an all-time high the previous evening and the water is still incredibly high in all low-laying areas of the Quad Cities. Rather than shut down operations, the CP i... (more)

BNSF 8785 (SD70ACe) & 6187 (ES44AC) pass Castle Rock area with a loaden coal train. BNSF 6138 (ES44AC) & 8818 (SD70MAC) are working on the rear end.

MOW A012 is seen here in the siding at Carrara for a meet of Northbound empty coal train E040

A Fresh 7338 leads 38Q up the West Slope at Lilly, released just 3 days prior.

A westbound 'shooter' drifts down grade through the searchlight installation at the west-end of Hermosa, led by Chicago & Northwestern 'heritage' unit #1995. This searchlight installation is one o... (more)

The "Spirit of the Union Pacific" leads a executive special along the Columbia River.

After leaving it's train on the mainline, MNA 3300 shoves on the branch leading to the yard, where it'll tie down. Evidence of an earlier incident where the train hit a downed tree can be seen wit... (more)

A westbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train blurs past a graveyard of semaphore signal masts lined up at Superior, Montana, after their removal from usefulness on October 6, 2005. One of o... (more)

Adding a splash of color to this snow covered scene, former BN SD60M 9222, now CBFX 6022, leads Flat Rock-Bellevue freight No. 184 across Norfolk Southern's Maumee River swing bridge in Toledo, Oh... (more)

A trio of veteran Canadian Pacific SD40-2's bring a 60 car Herzog ballast train through downtown Davenport. This view shows how the CP has elevated the mainline at least 2 feet over the Gaines Str... (more)

A northbound CP Rail rock train rolls through LeClaire, IA. Hard to believe something like this happened in 2019!

Bessemer & Lake Erie 909 leads DM&IR 405 and B&LE 900 up Proctor Hill with empty blast furnace trim cars (crushed raw taconite rock). The bright cars can also double as ballast haulers.