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07/17/2022

Four SD40-2s totaling 12,000 horsepower versus 100 loaded grain hoppers and the steady 1% grade of Lake Hill equals…..

Following a day of chasing CP’s Holiday Train up the C&M Sub, we got word that Wisconsin and Southern had sent a Chicago-bound grain extra down from Horicon,...

06/20/2022

After her last excursions last year, the “Iowa Bolt” was granted one more chance on the high iron, on the way for another shot at life…

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With the last excursion runs held last year, the future of Iowa Interstate's 6988 and 7081 seemed bleak. Confined to a shop with minimal space and equipment ...

05/30/2022

Four years after I last saw her tearing apart Metra's Rock Island Corridor with the Joliet Rocket, the 2-8-4 and I reconvened south of Cleveland, on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad, for the acclaimed "Steam In The Valley". Come along as the Lima-built S-2 Berkshire winds her way along this former Baltimore and Ohio line, first made famous as a tourist hauler by the Cuyahoga Valley Line and Grand Trunk Western 4070 in mid-1970s. In spite of the line being closed south of Jaite due to erosion issues, 765 nonetheless puts on a stunning show, performing numerous photo runbys at Brecksville, strutting upstream in the rain, and delighting passengers, rail fans, and passerby alike, her original whistle and signature stack talk echoing down the valley like a call to another time.

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05/02/2022

“Screamin’ In The Rain”

04/19/2022

Most times, seeing a fallen road’s paint vanish under the scheme of it’s new owner is a saddening thing, but in some cases, it can provide a new take on an already shootable subject…

Most of the time, when a fallen railroad’s paint scheme vanishes under the colors of it’s new owner or merger, it is a sad occasion. But occasionally, the ne...

01/19/2022

Despite having been bought up 16 years ago by 2015, “The Main Line Of Mid-America” lived on in memories, paint, and that infamous “Death Star” logo.

The C&NW Twins might perhaps have been the most famous paired set of locomotives in the Midwest, but in Wisconsin, CN had a pair of it's own that shined on a...

01/08/2022

A place where “Big Blue” once called home, now, almost a shadow of its former self…

Terre Haute Indiana's railroad scene has changed significantly in recent years. Up until 1999, Conrail's St Louis Line crossed CSX's CE&D Subdivision at grad...

01/01/2022

Well that’s one way to start off the New Year!

That's one way to start off the New Year!While celebrating the night prior, word came down through the online grapevine that CN Q-116, a Robert's Bank B.C. t...

12/17/2021

Sometimes, all one needs is a trail, a river, a bridge, and the high iron.

Another side stop on our Iowa trip centering around IAIS 6988 was the UP's Crossing of the Cedar River, in Cedar Rapids. Following the QJ's Freight Ferry to ...

12/04/2021

Non-Alcoholic, Half-EMD, Half-GE.

Around Milwaukee, CP has developed a reputation for foreign power on the majority of it's trains. So needless to say, when a solid set of CP Power shows up, ...

11/16/2021

The Appalachias, or the Suburbs of Milwaukee? With a CSX EMD in fresh YN3 paint, either could be plausible!
Nearly Brand-New SD70MACe 4534 charges Pilgrim Road, leading CP 281 winding it's way up Brookfield Hill. Note the Caboose and MOW Car hitching a ride near the tail end: Rail-Train equipment ferrying back north in the mix.

11/11/2021

“All the same, we take our chances, laughed at by time…..”

"Rat Strat" Lives!!!Enjoy Everybody! There is plenty more to come!