NS GP60 7148 leads B09 West past some fall colors in Holmesville.

An empty bottle train works back towards East Chicago. The train just came out of the ArcelorMittal steel-making plant in Riverdale, These bottle trains are loaded at 3 different blast furnaces in... (more)

A NS local is busy this morning working the interchange with the PAL and local industries in Mt. Vernon. The local would turn here and head back north toward Centralia with 5 cars.

With a happy engineer on board, LNM34 can be seen at Grinnell as they can be viewed crossing the old Rock Island Railroad interlocking as the engineer smacks the throttle and blows the horn for th... (more)

Making their way south through the Central Iowa Countryside, Union Pacific job LNM34 heads south after setting out a few potash cars at the Heartland Cooperative grain elevator outside of Ferguson... (more)

Old GP60 at Fullerton train station. The only engine painted to solid red at BNSF, currently not in service.

GP60 1039 leads the Modesto local north back to Stockton Ca

The MU01 "yard engine" works Durham with a trio of four axle EMDs.

UP local LRS99 out of Stockton is bound for A.L. Gilbert Co. at Keyes Ca

Looking very much like a short line, UP's Oskaloosa Local rolls south through Oskaloosa, Iowa on its way to Eddyville to serve an industrial complex.

NS 7138 has brought cars into a small yard just south of the Keystone Terminal near the Tallyrand port in Jacksonville.

Literally fresh out of the shop – in this case, Kansas City's Mid America Car – is BNSF GP60 170, sitting on the track outside MAC waiting to be picked up by (I believe) Kansas City Southern, ... (more)

A sight not often seen is the Union Pacific sending two motors from the BNSF yard in Denver, Colorado, passing over the South Platte River as they head to the Union Pacific's North Yard.

With a former Southern Pacific GP60 leading the way, Union Pacific's LHM31 local out of Marshalltown arrives in Eddyville, Iowa and proceeds through the Cargill Facility. After pausing just north ... (more)

UP GP60 #1066, still wearing most of its SP paint is leading job LNM34 southbound down the Oskaloosa Sub for Eddyville, IA. They're seen in this image passing by a farm just south of Grinnell, IA.