The last of the vibrant fall colors are hanging on around Old Fort as train 162 glides downgrade into Old Fort with a KCS Ace leader.
162's crew can see their own EOT as they are just long enough to pass over each other at High Fill in the Old Fort loops. While not totally rare, trains have to be at least 100 cars to make this ... (more)
"Belles, and Snow birds" NS 335 (Macon,GA-Sheffield,AL) slowly roll pass NS 130 on its way west (south in NS terms) for Sheffield, but before this train with a bit of color at the lead could leave... (more)
BNSF Richmond CA to Chicago stack train climbing east near Yucca
KCS GP 30 sitting in KCS engine facility Pittsburg, KS
Two varieties of EMD's SD70 (an Ace & a Mac) pull 448 axles of freight & intermodal the last few miles to the yard in Wylie, TX. 101 refreshing degrees outside.
Southern Belle, SD70ACe, KCS 4111, leads BNSF 5648, and sister "Belle", KCS 4048, west with 125 coal empties, as they speed into the setting sun, on the way back to the Powder River Basin for anot... (more)
DPU engine on a KCS grain heading south on the Beaumont Sub.
DPU on a southbound loaded grain train.
With the sun 30 minutes above the horizon, KCS 4111 and a NS Dash 9 schlep a pretty good sized 107 car baretable out of the Oakland yard passing the quiet Amtrak station in Emeryville.