The Delaware and Lackawanna Grain Extra ducks under an old signal bridge as it returns home with a bunch of old Alcos in the lead.

Salina was located on a loop off MP's Pueblo main, and by the 1980s was served by local freights that were generally pretty short and typically pulled by a GP38 or two. When grain started moving,... (more)

Local crews from Springfield and Washington CH tackle a long grain train at South Solon. CBNS 5002 leads the train, IORY 9500 and 4071 push on the rear. The pull - push method aids in getting the ... (more)

A westbound grain train dwarfs the Jasper section of the Rocky Mountaineer stopped at Vinsulla siding north of Kamloops. Vinsulla is an anagram of Sullivan, renamed to avoid confusion with Sulliva... (more)

A grain train crests the Continental Divide at Crowsnest Pass. The train will transfer to the Union Pacific at Eastport, ID, for shipment to the west coast (Portland or Kalama).

2 BNSF C44-9Ws team up with 2 Pan Am SD40-2s to take this monster 112 car loaded grain train across Pan Am Southern's Patriot Corridor to Ayer MA. Shown here catching the first rays of sun at Par... (more)

A loaded grain train makes its way along the Millers River on the Pan Am Southern main line. The BNSF run through power needs some help from a couple of Pan Am SD40-2s to make the grade between h... (more)

Skirting across the big 'pond' at Fisherman's Lane for Ayer out of Rotterdam.

For the first time in recorded history two back to back Ferromex units visited the old B&M to Ayer Mas on a loaded grain train. The return empty move is seen departing "Airport Crossing" with 11... (more)

Eastbound Grain Extra passing GK Tower in Norwood

SOO 6040 heads south between Strandquist and Newfolden where it will sort out hoppers at the Newfolden Co-Op Elevator Assn. en route to Thief River Falls, MN.

A good size snow bank gives me this vantage of four engines leading a loaded grain train out of Oakley. They start to smoke as they get under way heading southbound towards Owosso and eventually b... (more)

A unexpected snow squall blows through Durand as GMTX 2675 and 2663 lead a 65 car CSX grain train north heading towards the MAC elevator in Middleton.

The rain has finaly stopped as we sit in Oakley while the third unit 389 shoves the empty grain train north towards the elevator north of town seen out the cab of 394.

After dropping off a loaded coal train at Essexville, this pair of CSX locomotives is stopped at Peavey Grain in Bay City to pick a set of grain hoppers and will be proceeding southward to Saginaw... (more)