Following a multi-year restoration, F40PHR #231 returns to Amtrak's Phase III livery at Nevada State Railroad Museum. Additional info and progress photos at http://www.dynarail.org

I get the trains back in the 90s weren't the 700 car monsters they are today, but crazy that they would throw 2 SD38's on at Galesburg and run a decent size train it to Northtown with no issues. T... (more)

During late 1976 and all of 1977, you didn't need the internet to know that there were three E7s still in service on Conrail's North Jersey Coast Line (former New York & Long Branch) between South... (more)

WFRX units stored at Chattanooga.

At West Portal, N.J.on December 21, 1969 the NE1 holds down the westbound mainline as it snakes through the S curve behind LV snowbird 626 and yellow jacket C420 412 after exiting the Musconet... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 45 heads north (westbound) through Hubertus, Wisconsin, on June 11, 1996, powered by a pair of WC’s F45s and a new Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW.

UP 8530 (SD70ACe) leads a freight down the hill from Tunnel #1 and into Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado as it heads to Denver on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

ATN 8721 (ex. CSXT 8721) leads train Y103 through downtown Gadsden, AL

Rebuilt using EMD switcher frame and trucks and using a Caterpillar 3512 prime mover with a Kato generator. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

Just 1 hour 42 minutes late (believe it or not, that’s not too bad for Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief), Amtrak P42DCs 161 (dressed in the carrier's original paint scheme for thei... (more)

This is how the Wabash E8, 1009, appeared when on display at the Roanoke Transportation Museum at Wasena Park in Roanoke Virginia in September 1979. In November 1985, the museum would be devastate... (more)

5 unit light engine move Southbound on the River Division behind ex-New York Central U30B 2847.

Union Pacific 2-8-8-0 3604 leads 61 car freight number 258 east at 12 MPH in 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

The morning desert sun illuminates the Currie Depot along Nevada Northern Railway. Sagebrush has begun to retake the tracks along with the rest of the once prosperous town.

A roster view of CSXT 1897, sporting a partial Monon paint job with laying over at Raleigh. This is the first of CSX's Heritage fleet to operate here.