C&EI GP35 263 and 244 roll past the depot at Villa Grove, Illinois with a long string of hoppers in tow on May 7, 1966. The C&EL bought four batches of GP35's and the 263 was part of the third ... (more)

Chicago & Eastern Illinois GP7 211 leads a string of 40ft tank cars at Bongard, Illinois on August 22, 1956. Photo by Paul Moffitt, from my collection.

Golden Ski Train Sunrise plays a tapestry of light and shadow with the rolling fields of the high plains below the Front Range between Denver and Plainview with Winter Park Express hig... (more)

BNSF 4294 powers an eight car officer special westbound. Cars are Cajon Pass, Trinchera Pass, Mt. Helena, Raton Pass, Marias Pass, Topeka, Fred Harvey, & William B Strong.

F40PH-3s 6443, 6427, and 6407 head west on the Wainwright Sub with VIA 1.

On February 9th at 4:45 am, one of BNSFs monster coal trains derailed east of Cairo Nebraska. The three SD70ACes were the mid-train DPUs.

Snow Day Stack Train | Cruising past a cow pasture just north of Westville, OK on a snowy Monday, February 12, 2024 morning, CPKC intermodal train I181 heads north on its way from Mexico to... (more)

BN 6459 & 6465 lead a freight toward St. Paul at Newport, MN traveling on paired track shared with Milwaukee Road. Trailing unit, BN 6465 is still in its as delivered CB&Q scheme featuring the whi... (more)

Illinois Central’s Markham Local speeds southbound between Peotone and Manteno, Illinois, on a clear January 21, 1989. Leading the train is solid orange Illinois Central Gulf EMD GP10 No. 8186.

A Superfleet powered TOFC train heads east toward Chicago with a quartet of mixed GP60Ms & GP60Bs crossing farmland near Kinsman, IL.

A trio of cabooses bring up the rear of a westbound BN freight rolling through Newport, MN on its last lap into the Twin Cities. BN 10708, a modern extended vision caboose is preceded by two forme... (more)

The daily Waterloo, IA, to Kirk Yard near Gary, IN, manifest train is 8 miles into the trip out of Waterloo. The train tackles the grade Big Raymond Hill on the Dubuque Sub. With all 3 GE's barkin... (more)

A westbound RCPE train is being tied down in the distance as the remnants of a recent derailment await further cleanup in the small town of Elkton, SD.

A southbound Illinois Central freight train, with coal hoppers behind the locomotives, passes a picturesque barn between Ashkum and Danforth, Illinois, on May 6, 1990. The modern day IC locomotive... (more)

Iowa Interstate RR rolls Eastbound through Malcom Iowa at sunset. The crossing was currently closed off due to road construction of the crossing