Looking like a MAC daddy on display at Fairbanks Railroad Day is SD70MAC # 4328 in a special scheme influenced by Alaska Railroad's first blue and yellow locomotives of the 1950s. This year, 2023... (more)

Fire In Town. On July 23, 2015, an early morning fire in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia caused tremendous smoke throughout the area, though miraculously only damaged three buildings and there... (more)

The Big Hill! The name originally given the "Big Hill" was the original 4.5% eastbound grade out of Field, BC, that directly assaulted the Continental Divide, while a better solu... (more)

Look, Ma! No Fuel Tank!

EMDX SD40J 50, a Joule Battery Electric Locomotive built on the frame of an SD40-2 by Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. in Brazil, switches autoracks ... (more)

The mysterious case of an "unofficial" Chessie System nose job was seen by many photographers on this day as train L810-11 worked its way to Cedartown, GA. Many remain baffled by the fact that thi... (more)

Union Pacific train number 111, the City of Denver, is seen leaving Denver on its first westbound run, with ten cars at 35 MPH, on June 19th 1936. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

West Virginian Ways | Loaded coal train 766 crawls up the mainline on the famous Elkhorn Grade of the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas District, passing a coal transload facility near the commun... (more)

BNSF intermodal exiting the famed Tehachapi Loop.

Chicago’s Iconic Tunnels. CN train L536 crawls through Downtown Chicago with IC 1000, the “class unit” IC SD70 leading a CN SD75I and SD70M-2. They are seen here tip toeing under the ... (more)

Norfolk & Western 475 leads its passenger train up the grade at Esbenshade at sunset.

The Montana Rail Link's "Bozeman Bullet" descends Bozeman Pass during the final hours of light with 355 on the point.

Budapest Déli station (Hungarian: Budapest-Déli pályaudvar, lit.?'Budapest southern station'), known to locals and foreigners alike simply as the Déli is one of the three main railway stations... (more)

As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take... (more)

The westbound California Zephyr passes through a Winter Wonderland in the midst of the area known as the Tunnel District. This is on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, located about 26 miles west of ... (more)

Traffic is starting to get busy on a late spring afternoon at the top Palmer Lake on Colorado's Joint Line. On BNSF Main 1, a loaded coal train slowly grinds towards "The Sag"; the stop ... (more)