While the city of Aiken and their local shortline sleep, mother nature's fury is out in full force.

One of the most popular places to photograph trains in North Dakota is from this hill in the Bad Lands. The story behind this photo is a little more involved than I walked up the hill and waited f... (more)

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Through the mist and darkness... Backwoods of central Russia at the north of Tver region. Local time 4-30 AM. The train appears out of the mist breaking the silence and tranquilit... (more)

FCAB units are looking the same color as the dust on Cumbre Pass as they grind up the grade with empty sulfuric acid tanks. 2 more units are shoving on the rear.

An eastbound manifest notches up out of the sag of Darling with the sun setting behind the San Fransisco Peaks.

Well I was standin on a corner in Winslow Arizona, such a fine sight to see. Well sorry, no girl in a flat bed ford here! Only a late afternoon eastbound climbing a grade on the former Santa Fe ag... (more)

It is snowing lightly as the sunrises at McEwen. Engines 3 and 19 are getting ready for a day of photo ops for Pete Lerro's winter weekend on the Sumpter.

A UP double stack train heads west in the last of the afternoon light.

Life on the MRL... Ever since BNSF leased the MRL SD45's, the crews have had a dislike for them. It is the warmest time of the year in Montana, and the 'ol SD45's don't have air conditionin... (more)

A train from Oued Zem to Casablanca loaded with phosphate approaches Khouribga with leading E 1118 and E 1202 on the rear end. Overall weight of this train is 4800 tons.

Adding helpers to a westbound oil train just outside of Blackfoot MT, for the trip into the mountains in the background

These are two out of three model SD70ACe locomotives that will do tests pulling trains MRS Logistica.

7825 east crosses the normally westbound Ciennega Creek Bridge over Davidson Canyon. If there are no west bounds around, the dispatcher will route a heavy eastbound over the westbound track.