Vancouver Thornton, BC to Montreal Taschereau, PQ stacks glide down the grade at Caramat.

M 399 rolls by Indian Lake, Michigan. The train is currently on the Hot Box Detector at Mile Post 155.6 as it heads West for Kirk Yard.

A hoe digs reject coal out of train L768 at the Cardinal River load out. This could very well be my last shot of a train up here as the mine has since been shut down. RIP.

NS 64M slowly making their way to Bluefield with a Canadian Duo at Falls Mills

CN 120 has a long train (656 axles) and 3 units up front (CN 2857, CN 8835 & CN 8011) and another mid-train (CN 2970) as it crosses the Richelieu River a bit before noon on a cold but sunny mornin... (more)

This 50 car cut has descended the 3% portion of the Luscar Industrial Spur. The train crossed Luscar Creek at the bottom of the grade and is now climbing a short 1.5% grade to a connection with t... (more)

Two new GE's pull a loaded 50 car section of a Luscar coal train up the twisting grade near Steeper, AB. The grade here is about 1.1% and 2 GE's can lift a 50 car train un-assisted. The rear of t... (more)

The Luscar industrial spur and load out serves Teck's Cardinal River Coal Mine near Cadomin, AB. The mine extracts high quality coking-coal for the steel industry world wide. The Canadian Nationa... (more)

CN 342 pulls hard approaching Parkland ... (more)

A pair of CN's first AC power units drag this south bound stacker south through Duplainville.

The DPUs on train X458 (Swan Landing-Grande Prairie) hold the main at the south end of Grey while A459 (Grande Prairie-Swan Landing) passes on the siding. X458 consisted of 82 loads of frac sand.

Quite the colorful and unique consist leads an ore train bound eventually for Escanaba, Michigan.

First E-Rail of the year struggles to regain 40 mph just south of Rockmont. This was basically a "free" shot, if you will. My other shots were planned and when I realized they were going slow enou... (more)

Only a few months old, this GEVO heads up the first Escanaba bound E-Rail of the year. Train is longer than in 2012, where you could see the DPU from this spot. Although when they first went by me... (more)