An empty Detroit Edison coal train rolls through Boylston Junction behind a pair of EMD's.

BNSF 9913 leads a coal train up Crawford Hill, shot from Breezy Point on the Ponderosa Ranch.

Loaded BNSF Coal Train makes it's way up Crawford Hill.

CN loaded ethanol train heads east across the corn fields of Northern Illinois. A few days later this area was hit with a hail storm that wiped out all the alfalfa, corn and soybeans.

CN ethanol train climbs the hill into Scales Mound and passes a reminder that some gave all.......

South bound coal load crawling up the Palmer Divide just north of Palmer Lake, CO

On a return trip to the Powder River Basin, 9913 leads its train past another empty coal train waiting for a recrew. The New Buffalo coaling tower still stands proud and wears the Chessie System ... (more)

The house on the bluff has one of the premium views along the Lake Michigan shoreline, not only for spectacular sunsets, but also for a variety of trains on CSX's Michigan line in and out of Chica... (more)

A pair of big macs pull E-950 past the G-Type home signal as they head towards the NS Chicago Line.

CN crew is delivering a loaded coal train to IEI in East Dubuque, IL.

A BNSF westbound empty coal train is seen winding through the upper horshoe.

This pair of BNSF locomotives has just arrived at Saginaw Yard after bringing local train Z126 in from Bay City.

Lead unit on a southbound loaded coal, just passing the Saginaw Interlocker. Rails in the bottom of the picture are the UP Duncan Sub and BNSF Fort Worth crossing each other. This is the best lo... (more)

DPU on a southbound coal train headed into North Yards