Recent content by jonwray

UP 1445 with the LQH29 hauls gondolas of scrap metal down some industrial street running on the south side of Quahog, CA.

Circa February of 2014, as BNSF's C40-8W fleet is running out its last miles in service, three of them are found on point of a low priority Stockton to Barstow manifest climbing out of Caliente, beginning the real assault on Tehachapi. A brand new ES44C4 is shoving on the rear.

An eastbound CPKC grain empty, freshly recrewed at Field, BC, waits for hotshot 149 to complete its descent of Kicking Horse Pass, before beginning its own assault on the grade.

It's often said that Christmas is just another day on the railroad; such holds true for the crew of this westbound grainer assaulting the grade out of Truckee on Christmas Eve, as another winter snowstorm begins to bear down on the Sierra Nevada range.

It's come to my attention that we don't really have any quality Canpotex hoppers in Trainz, despite the fact that they would fit very well on the Canadian Rockies route that is the face of TRS19...

Circa 1979, a quartet of DRGW geeps are leading a hot westbound through Rocky, CO, and are about to begin their assault of Big Ten Curve.

Low-priority manifest M-FRSBAR climbs through the horseshoe curve just west of Bealville with a five pack of SD40-2s on point, circa July 2006.

There usually is something of a gap between contests, they are most likely busy.

476 and 481 lead a northbound passenger train near the NM/CO state line on what would eventually become the Cumbres and Toltec.

An eastbound SP coal train is in the siding at Granby, as westbound California Zephyr #5/Desert Wind #35 pulls in for its station stop, running a few minutes early.

A westbound freight on the Rockland Portside Railway, led by ex-UP GP7 #101, takes the siding in Wiscasset to meet an eastbound RDC set headed for Rockland.

Circa 1943, a pair of leased Rutland Mikados lead a shipment of Europe-bound Shermans along the south end of Maine Central's Mountain Division.

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.