On a crystal clear evening in downtown Chicago, Metra’s Chicago Burlington & Quincy commemorative locomotive head ends an outbound rush trainset. Seen here from the Roosevelt Rd bridge.

"Passing Phase at Hayden"

On April 6th, 2024, Amtrak Phase III Heritage P42DC 145 leads southbound Hartford Line Train 463 at Hayden Interlocking on the MRS (Hartford) Line ... (more)

Cresting the summit of Cajon Pass behind 504 are GP60M 127, GP40X 3805 and GP60M 130.

CN 8952 leads CN Q116 though East Lansing Michigan heading to Moterm in Detroit, and after that CN Flat Rock Yard. About 55 minutes after this photo was taken 8952 would strike a down tree on the ... (more)

Sitting alone outside Von Storch.

A typical Chicago scene....on most days. It's certainly not everyday you see an Illinois Central locomotive leading an Amtrak train, but that's what we have here as a late City of New Orleans shov... (more)

Obviously a Monongahela Connecting alumnus this unit shuffled cars of coal going from the mainline railroads to barges. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

For two consecutive weekends the Welded Rail Train dropped rail on the mainline between Calverton and Manorville. When crews weren't working, the train was laid up on the Calverton Spur which is t... (more)

Military MAC | The sky grows ever darker over Watts, OK where a CSX SD70MAC leads a southbound military train across the Illinois River bridge on a cool Saturday, April 20, 2024 evening. Be... (more)

Minutes before the bottom was about to fallout, the power of CSX M502 (Nashville,TN-Chicago,IL) is making it's way down to the drill out of the yard trk-C06 to pick up it's short train out of Yard... (more)

Beamish museum's annual Wheels of Industry weeked and guest engine in the colliery yard is Sir Berkeley. With the colliery buildungs at the back, a train of chaldron wagons are propelled through s... (more)

Re 410 # 039, former SBB Re 4/4 I # 10039, then Re 416 # 628 of the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn/Thurbo, owned by Swiss Rail Traffic, is pulling the TR TransRail transfer train 39139 from Chavornay via Yve... (more)

First run of a phase 7 P42 duo heads across a bridge as it heads up towards tunnel one.

Under the night sky, Civil War railroad icon "Texas" glows within its glass display case at the Atlanta History Museum.

Ex-Penn Central.