Looking Good at 20. Looking almost factory fresh despite some mild grime on its cowl, a 20-year-old BNSF 5239 leads a Newton, Kansas to Modesto, California, manifest into Shafter, Californi... (more)
This Willow Springs, IL to North Bay, CA Z trains rolls west out of Emporia, kicking up what little snow is left after the previous nights "snowstorm".
There is just enough evidence left of last nights "snowstorm" for this westbound Z train to kick up as it heads through the crossover plant at Merrick at 70 MPH.
After a meet with the NS 12K, the southbound autorack train climbs out of the hill at the south end Claypool siding. While waiting for the 12K to pass by at my vehicle, the engineer yells out a... (more)
A quiet Sunday morning in Warsaw is disrupted by the blaring sounds of an autorack train as it strolls down the middle of Hickory Street.
With the NS MOW working crew loading up rail on the main, the autorack train sweeps around on the Leesburg siding and crawls out of the siding at CP 21 at the south end. Pennsy signals are still h... (more)
The new power for 68Q passes Berea Tower as it is backed into the siding onto the train. The two SD75's that brought the train into Berea were cut off and assigned to go west on 11G.
This is a westbound set of tri-level autoracks, winding its way through Kingman Canyon
Things were a bit busy in my brief one hour visit to Kingman Canyon Wednesday, 5 trains in hour...must have been the luck of the 09-09-09!
Grain loads for St. Louis, MO run wrong main toward Northtown due to congestion ahead on Main 2.
Q371 rumbles west on the CSX Short Line with a BNSF Dash 9 on the point as a Norfolk Southern eastbound intermodal passes in the backround
A BNSF stack train heads west through the semophores at Brighton Park. Work is being done to automatic this manual junction with a rumored cutover of July 4, 2007.