Recent content by jonwray

Miles and miles of nothing but miles and miles - The year is 1994, and WVRR C430 #244, the road's 'retro' unit backdated to its as-delivered 1967 paint scheme, leads two Southern Pacific EMDs and a Conrail C30-7A on a westbound hotshot between Salt Wells and Fallon, NV. This train is run-through...

We're in the cab of a westbound manifest out of Lubbock, TX, which has taken the hole at Anton to wait out an eastbound local rushing back towards the city.

Following orders to clear every railcar out of B.O.O.M., a three mile long military train with two NS GEVOs on point and two more near the end climbs a 2% grade out of the river valley.

Two SD9043MACs wearing Union Pacific's 'We Will Deliver' slogan bracket the class unit of the AC6000CWs, as they lead the CWTNO9 (West Thunder Mine, WY to Dunphy, NV) out of Cheyenne; two more AC6000CWs shove on the rear, out of sight.

Shortline shenanigans: Alder Canal Terminal Railway GP40-2 number 1369 (ex-UP, nee-DRGW) works the docks in (fictional) Alder, MN.

First light on a summer day in 2005 finds a trio of snoot-nosed SD40-2s leading a northbound ballast train on UP's Spine Line somewhere in northern Iowa.

The same oil train we've been following through multiple screenshots descends Colorado's Front Range, seen here on approach to the well-known Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing.

UP's hot ZBRLA climbs the 2.1% grade between Cliff and Rowen with an NS interloper third out.

Dang, you got me wishing I'd bought the other SP GP35s off JR while they were still available.

Two Class 37s haul a loaded coal train down a branch line towards a nearby powerstation, while a third one rolls by with 9 container flats. (Route is "Midshire and Rosworth Valley Lines" on the DLS)

BCSJ-some string of numbers I don't remember. Should be on the DLS.

UP's QRVWC (Priority Manifest, Roseville, CA to West Colton, CA) climbs the grade out of Caliente with six SD40M-2s on the point. Not seen are two more and a tunnel motor acting as a rear helper, as the train semi-readily makes track speed in notch 6, circa June 2003.

Doing a short run on the Icarus Shinkansen 2.0 when I realize Trainz... decided to put a crew model outside the cab :LOL:

Somewhere in central Oregon, circa 1974...

A pair of Westwind Logging SD7s (ex-BN) lead 20 loaded log cars down the start of their descent from Westwind Pass, on the former standard gauge mainline connecting Planeptune with Lastation. (This is a spiritual successor to my moribund WPSR project from a few years ago, using the Standard12...