The UP to CSX intermodal train of Q144 heads north through Opelika with quite the lash-up including an SD9043MAC. Unfortunately this train would be discontinued soon after and get routed over the... (more)

INRD 9007 is coming down the hill back to their rails after grabbing interchange traffic from CSX.

INRD 9007 heads east for CSX's Hawthorne Yard to grab junk freight and bring back to their yard at Senate Avenue.

INRD 9001 pulls an empty Merom train east on a gorgeous summer morning. Although the Meroms still run, the INRD SD90's are history.

INRD 9010 leads a duo of SD90's west as SAHW prepares to cross into Illinois. From here the train will run to Newton, Illinois and interchange with the CN.

A clean pair of INRD SD90's leads HWSA south towards Dugger, Indiana. The train will end up crew swapping in Switz City before ending up in Indianapolis before nights end.

An empty Merom coal train heads south to the Bear Run coal load out. A duo of INRD SD90's lead the trip.

INRD 9001 leads a loaded coal train out of Bear Run, passing the old Peabody drag line. The drag line was scrapped and the SD90's are stored nowadays. ETTS.

The sun rises on southern Indiana as we find INRD 9001 sitting around waiting for a crew. Once a crew gets on it'll do what it's meant to do, move that heavy coal.

A Westbound Canadian Pacific Grain train is being pushed by Canadian Pacific SD9043MAC No. 7001 through the Deschutes River State Park along Hwy 30

With heavy fog from Lake Superior still lifting, we see Canadian Pacific, CP 9111 SD9043mac and 8778 ES44AC that had rear end a train that was already sitting on the siding at Coldwell, Ontario. T... (more)

CP wreck site where CP 9111 SD9043mac and 8778 ES44AC rear end a train already sitting on the siding, at Coldwell, Ontario. All crew members shaken but OK. October 1, 2007. Jack D Kuiphoff © ph... (more)

An odd pairing of a CMQ SD402-F and a former UP SD9043MAC at the locomotive maintenance facility in the CPKC Yard (previously KCS) in East St. Louis, IL.

With the Sangre De Christo Mountains serving as a backdrop, the AAPRCO San Juan Limited ascends the west slope of Veta Pass.

Early spring weather rolls eastward from the Medicine Bow Mountain Range and streams over Wyoming’s Sherman Hill with gray clouds on March 25, 2008. A momentary and serendipitous break in the cl... (more)