SamLovesTrains

10/30/2025

Quiet Night in Coal Country

07/31/2025

Chicago Summer Nights on VHS 📹📼

07/15/2025

I just finished up my video covering the final days of operations at the Riverdale steel mill. My video also features a run of the NS bottle train, which was, to my knowledge, the only place where you could see sub/torpedo cars on the main line!

On June 15th and 16th, 2025, I documented the final days of regular operations at Cleveland Cliffs Riverdale Steel Mill on Chicago's south side. The indefini...

06/30/2025

Scary morning out in Hartford, Wisconsin today on the Wisconsin & Southern!

At around 9:30AM on June 30th, 2025, Wisconsin & Southern train L599 derailed on the west side of Hartford, Wisconsin resulting in a messy pile-up with three...

04/19/2025

Tried some low-light shots with my new camera:

In March 2025, a pair of SD40-2s bounced back and forth on CPKC's mainline through Northern Illinois and Wisconsin; starting off in ballast service and then ...