On a freezing cold morning, the CPKC crew in Shreveport inspects locomotives in the engine house. It is cold, but the sunshine helps (if one can stay out of the wind).

UP 5953 holds the siding with coal for San Antonio while the engineer (or conductor) comes out to give a visual once-over of an eastbound, near sunset.

Lehigh Hanson has acquired two former Missouri Pacific SD40-2s (UP 4279, previously MP 4279 and originally MP 3279) and 4297, (UP 4297, previously MP B4297 and originally MP 3297) to operate their... (more)

A bird's eye view of Rollins Pass (Corona Pass), which was named after John Rollins, who opened a wagon toll road over the Continental Divide, later largely used by Moffat's Denver, Northwestern &... (more)

Busy afternoon at Valley Junction, as a northbound heads toward Waco, while a train coming off the former Mopac waits to head south toward Flatonia. Meanwhile, to the west, and empty SATX coal tra... (more)

KRR 4080 (ex-Soo 787) heads up two more G&W-liveried Kiamichi SD40-2s. The train has just cleared the diamond with CPKC in Ashdown, and shortly will continue east toward Hope for interchange with ... (more)

Fifteen years ago today, a pair of BNSF DPUs gently help with braking duties downhill into Denver, headed ultimately back to the Powder River Basin with empty coal gons.

NS 3055 switches paper box cars, in a facility wedged between the Amtrak yard and the Chicago River.

UP 1050 and 1055 sit quietly on a spur in downtown New Braunfels. Both locomotives were delivered to Cotton Belt in April 1990, numbered SSW 9701 and 9699 ... possibly in the same delivery. 33 1/2... (more)

UP 1943 - Spirit of Union Pacific rolls through New Braunfels on the old International & Great Northern, nee Missouri Pacific, a line that was built in 1880. Here it is crossing San Antonio Street... (more)

UP 1943 - Spirit of Union Pacific holds the siding at Goodwin, north of New Braunfels, to change crews. The new crew checks the headlights (thus lights on ... or maybe they just did it for me). Wa... (more)

A triclops SD60M and a 40 year old SD40-2 hold down cement hoppers near Taylor TX.

The terminal at Long Beach from a JFK approach.

Ex-South African Railways Class 16DA 848, nee-Wankie Colliery #5, is a popular display in Dete, even among the locals. Here some kids climb in and around the cab on their way home from school.

This scene is long gone, with a massive sky scraper built over this portion of the exit from the north platforms of Chicago Union Station. But 17 years ago, if one showed up in the longer days of ... (more)