This was a beautiful train.

Fatal derailment on the B&O February 24, 1967. Pictured is the "Wabash River".

NS 18N has derailed and piled up within the CP Altoona interlocking fouling all mains. No injuries are being reported; however, one the autoracks has overturned onto 10th Avenue crushing a parked ... (more)

Welcome to the world Central Maine & Quebec SD40-2F #9021! Ironically the 9021 was released today, on 9/21, as the first of 10 SD40-2Fs being painted this fall for the Central Maine & Quebec Rail... (more)

At what first might not seem very exciting, that changes when you realize you are seeing the tender to the BIG BOY UP 4014 that is being restored behind those closed roundhouse doors. The adjacen... (more)

A northbound Hoosier State collides with a trailer containing powdered cement. Only minor injuries occurred and the passengers were bused to Chicago.

Getting a load out of Claremont Paper. As the cars got heavier and the engines more tired, it was sometimes necessary to use two locomotives to get up this grade and around this tight curve. It co... (more)

Chasing a rainbow on a blustery day

Milwaukee Road 261 departs Duluth for Minneapolis and in the process crosses over BNSF's ex-NP Grassy Point swing bridge linking Duluth and Superior.

For my 1,000th picture on RP.net I really wanted to do something a little special. Just about every Montreal River photo I ever took on the ACR/WC had a little story to go along with it due to the... (more)

The South Branch Valley's Chessie-painted GP9, no. 6240, leads a short Petersburg Turn northward along the railroad's namesake river shortly after departing Petersburg, West Virginia. The water le... (more)

The cab of the VRE MP36 are a bit different than the sister units MARC has. Click here to compare.

PRR 9604 and 9605, chair cars from the Keystone Trainset are riding ITTX flatcars on CN 382. These cars are bound for Canac in St Laurent, Quebec.

Heading for Railfair, 4449 struts her stuff on the climb to Grass Lake.

An eastbound Burlington Northern freight trailed by two cabooses slinks around the curves through the Badlands west of Sully Springs, North Dakota, on July 27, 1992.