A burned out CSXT unit still calls Barr Yard home after being involved in collision back in early January 2012.

UP e/b manifest train derailment at Aikins, Kansas, on the Kansas Division between Topeka and Marysville. Units involved: U25Bs 632, 627, and Alco DL-640 (RS-27) 677. The up-side-down 677 can be s... (more)

SP SD35 6902 suffers an electrical fire as the train waits in the hole in Soledad Canyon west of Palmdale, CA on July 15, 1973. The crew never noticed the smoke pouring out of the second locomotiv... (more)

A few hours earlier, CN Q101 smashed into the side of VIA #1 in Jasper's station track. When #1 arrived in Jasper, they left a switch open after shoving into the clear in the station track. Luckil... (more)

It's early dawn and the morning parade of heavy freight manifests begin rolling through America's heartland. NKP #765 along with PM #1225 team up in a double-headed pan... (more)

Early morning action...eastbound and westbound stack trains.

Autumn high above Willsboro Bay on CP Rails scenic D&H North End with 250 winning the race handily with a lake kayaker (in CP Red) far below at 10:45.

Imagine it's 1960. The Southern Pacific narrow gauge is on its last legs, so you decide to go photograph it on Washington's birthday. You're going to drive to the Owens Valley and chase the train ... (more)

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 leads its first revenue train towards Andover, seen here squeezing thru the small railroad bore within the naturally-made Natural Tunnel. The creek created m... (more)

B&O E7A, E6B, E7A units arrive at the Jersey Central Elizabeth station with train no. 2, NATIONAL LIMITED, from St. Louis.

The 491 heads west toward Glenwood, MN as the sky catches fire from a chilly, late fall sunrise.

The rains finally came. After a long drought, the much anticipated rainy season came in full fury. Rainfall rates of 5-6 inches per hour fell with 2.70" in 30 minutes which happens occasionally

At dawn, a manned helper set of SD40E's pops out of the New Portage Tunnel and heads down "The Slide" on the journey back to Altoona to help another train up the mountain. This is the steepest gra... (more)

Floating Train

The Alaska Railroad has no physical connection to the rest of the North American rail network. But that doesn't prevent them from having a robust interchange. The ... (more)

A brand new AC44C6M rebuilt at GE Transportation from a C40-9 sits on the EEC-NS interchange track awaiting pickup. These units are rebuilt with the rear two thirds remaining relatively unchanged,... (more)