The purchased 90 ex-Oakways from GMTX in 2012. The units went thru an extensive standardization at the CN shops at Centralia. Unit received many extra and newer parts and also got a fresh paint in... (more)

Our 2nd storm of the season started getting going Friday morning. y the time it ended Saturday night, most of Iowa is in pretty bad shape. It was an impressive storm with a decent amount of wind a... (more)

After holding on Track 2 for a pair of passenger trains to stop at the Fullerton Transportation Center (a Metrolink commuter train on Track 3, and an Amtrak Pacific Surfliner on Track 1). ... (more)

I get the trains back in the 90s weren't the 700 car monsters they are today, but crazy that they would throw 2 SD38's on at Galesburg and run a decent size train it to Northtown with no issues. T... (more)

Our 2nd storm of the season started getting going Friday morning. By the time it ended Saturday night, most of Iowa is in pretty bad shape. It was an impressive storm with a decent amount of wind ... (more)

CSXT 911 basks in the afternoon sun.

B&O 7610, part of a 3-unit helper set, is westbound–returning to its Brunswick base after shoving a freight over Barnesville Hill on the “Met”. The camera position is near C&O Canal Lock 29.... (more)

Through the Fields. On the second day of the charter, the FEC 148 pulls a cane train through the many properties of U.S. Sugar Corporation.

No glamour for this unit, captive to the plant, as the B23-7s get all the glory.

driving along the tulip fields of the Netherlands

N&W 611 with a photo freight at Paradise Pennsylvania on the Strasburg Railroad.

A Union Pacific Officer Special gets ready to leave the North Yard in Denver, Colorado and will run into the Colorado Rockies for the Moffat Tunnel.

A loaded coal train bound for Newton, IL, crosses the Illinois River at Beardstown. The train is working westbound (south) on the Beardstown line towards Centralia. There, the train will be interc... (more)

The CN ran their executive train out to Waterloo on March 28th. Along for the ride was a group from the IANR team seeing the sites. The train made awesome time as it traveled from Markham to Water... (more)

"SD70ACU" NS 7335, an SD70ACU rebuilt from an SD90MAC in late 2018, soaks up some April sun in South Fork. Though Norfolk Southern rostered 100+ ACUs at one point, since selling ... (more)