Clinchfield 800 leads a passenger train shortly after leaving Lhoist North America's Crab Orchard mine. The engine is visiting the mine for the 2nd year in a row to power some employee appreciatio... (more)

Getting closer.

Five-Axle At Night. Former CDOT FL-9 2023 (née-New Haven 2057) is the 3rd to last F unit built by EMD. The FL-9 order was a custom design for the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad... (more)

WGN F7 423 rests through the night at their base in Trego.

When is a tunnel not a tunnel? While not a "traditional" tunnel, this is the railroad's way of getting under PA 93. Looks like a tunnel to me. And a great photo spot.

270 now wears the fourth coat of paint I have seen on it in my lifetime. An Outer Station Reading-Jim Thorpe special is heading north thru the otherwise unknown burg of Molino, just north of Port... (more)

Three of four passenger trains running for the fall foliage season are seen here, with the JTOS backing into the station aster the LGSR departs with the JTPI waiting its turn. JTOS will actually ... (more)

A spectacularly soggy Saturday is still better spent trackside in PA than anything I can think of in the fall. A Fall Foliage special from Outer Station Reading is easing into the Port Clinton de... (more)

A short passenger special of deadhead equipment is returning to Cheyenne, WY on a summer afternoon. The train has crossed the Loup River in Columbus, NE and is seen at MP 84.5 as it enters a stret... (more)

The Reading & Northern foliage train is seen returning from Jim Thorpe and passing Zenners, just South of Tamaqua with the railroad's classic F units on the point.

The Reading & Northern foliage train is seen returning from Jim Thorpe rolling through Nesquehoning with the classic F units on the point.

The Northern Pacific Railway continued to use FT's long after other railroads had traded theirs for 2nd-generation diesel locomotives. The Tacoma Division was the home of the remaining FTs in t... (more)

Originally Canadian Pacific 4040, this Canadian built cab unit shuttles cabeese around in preparation for the weekend's excursions.

A Reading and Northern fall foliage excursion returns to Reading just after sunset. It was led by F9A 270 which was one of the Norfolk Southern's executive units.

Just departed the Grapevine depot heading westbound to the Ft Worth Stockyards.