Casting a reflection in a rain puddle, an eastbound Pend Oreille Valley Railroad freight approaches Dover, Idaho, on the morning of October 1, 2021. This train is operating on the former Great Nor... (more)

Central Michigan train 771 starts to roll north out of Durand behind a mix of power that you'd only find on the CMGN. 2014 was recently acquired from the Devco Railway and wore a fresh coat of Ce... (more)

A January afternoon finds an Erie Lackawanna GP7 on the roundhouse lead at Bangor, Pennsylvania. Built in 1952 as Erie 1404, the EMD road switcher has about five years of service left.

The Maddy Local heads southbound on a bitter -20°F morning. This train will turn off the Marshall Sub in Hanley Falls, running the ex M&STL Hanley Falls Sub.

Empty hoppers from the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie move south on the Monongahela Railway at Pine Bank, Pennsylvania. After being filled with West Virginia coal, they will return to home territory.

The Pend Oreille Valley Railroad turn operating to the BNSF interchange at Sandpoint is approaching the Syringa Heights Road grade crossing between Dover and Sandpoint, Idaho, on the morning of Fe... (more)

At Illinois Central Gulf's Homewood yard, 14 Gulf, Mobile & Ohio GP38's in storage, in June 1975.

A Delaware & Hudson westbound, led by D&H GP39-2 7605 - N&W GP9 635 - N&W GP9 940 - RS11 5002, climbs Belden Hill at the Depot Hill Road crossing in Port Crane, NY. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

At dusk, Conrail trailer train TV-5 departs Boston's Beacon Park Yard for the west behind a quartet of GP40-2s. CSX closed this yard in 2012 under pressure from real estate developers and in 2020 ... (more)

After grabbing a shot of this train under cloudy skies at Portage, I like the train headed north for Anchorage. As I got near Girdwood I could see that it was likely the sun would dip below the cl... (more)

CN 7505 sits at Symington Yard with another GP38, separated by a pair of switching slugs. The units were used for hump yard work at Symington and were parked near the diesel shop along with a GP9 ... (more)

Geep Renaissance: The Alaska Railroad powered a rail train with 5 Geeps. Seen here at Brookman with 3 GP40-2s and 2 GP38-2s in 3 separate paint schemes. To make things even better the rear of the ... (more)

LIRC 2301 leads a loaded military train over the old PRR truss bridge spanning the Flatrock River on the north side of Columbus. The train is headed to the Camp Atterbury military base, and the br... (more)

There was a little break in the clouds for once on this trip. After a week I decided that the only way to railfan New England is to live there and have no other commitments other than waiting fo... (more)

Bound for the D&H connection at Mechanicville, NY, a westbound Boston & Maine freight gets underway after making a pickup at Ayer, MA. A GP18 leads three GP9s on the point.