An Old Soul In recent years, the MBTA has rebuilt its World War II-era PCC cars with modern Brookville parts. Though this car's appearance is straight out of the 1940s, it was recently ret... (more)

The Union Pacific brought Challenger #3995 to the 2001 NRHS convention hosted by the St. Louis Chapter NRHS, shown here enroute to St. Louis. The convention paid homage to the 150th anniversary of... (more)

2816 pulls out of it's fourth maintenance stop of the day, on top of meeting six trains, on the marathon run of about 320 miles from Minot, ND to Glenwood, MN. Here the Hudson says goodbye to Nor... (more)

METRA 154 (City of North Chicago) Leads, outbound from Olgive Transportation Center in downtown Chicago heading North

As the Marathon takes petroleum barges down the Ohio River, a grain train sails east high overhead

This shot rather landed in my lap due to an errant merge onto the "A" route thru, as opposed to around, town. Thought I was done for, but the train maintained a delicate speed and I was... (more)

Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.

Trestle Time: NS 4086 leads manifest train NS 118 eastbound over Coopers Trestle in Bramwell, West Virginia, along the NS Pocahontas District toward Bluefield, West Virginia.

Between Moose Jaw & Regina exists a sprawling network of industrial railroading in Belle Plain which partially includes Viterra's operations which can handle 135 cars of grain within their loop. ... (more)

Loaded iron ore train weighing around 43000 tons is seen here battling a 8km grade of 0.4% almost finishing its journey of near 1800km to the mines and back to São Luís.

In the 90s, Amtrak actually serviced a purpose. They ran trains and hauled some mail. Here, the Southwest Chief roars east at Stronghurst on the Chili Sub with a decent size train. Scanned Slide f... (more)

The RS 70 has a heavy stone train today 39 cars.

July 28, 1978 - South Amboy, NJ - Having turned a rail with its train, Raritan River SW900 #6 has disconnected from its train and pulled forward to wait for additional help to arrive. We had been ... (more)

I don't know if they are outstanding in their field but they are out standing in somebody's field because the crops grow right up to the tracks at the nice new shop facility. We didn't catch the ... (more)

2816 crossing a Soo lettered bridge just east of Barrett on the home stretch to Glenwood at the end of a marathon run of about 320 miles.