Following Winter Storm "Nemo", operations on the New England Central Railroad were shut down through Saturday afternoon, when a 'Driftbuster' light engine move was dispatched out of St. Albans, Ve... (more)

A Brandt Road-Transferable Locomotive (RTL) in maintenance of way service, takes a break for the weekend in Union Pacific's Echo Yard. Brandt is a Canadian company that converts semi trucks into d... (more)

Coke out of the refineries in Billings is often run in unit trains to west coast ports for Export. Here one of those export trains crosses Greenhorn Creek.

Empty side dump cars from a CN (DMIR) limestone train sit just a few yards from the road I'm standing on, having derailed off the bridge (left) the night before. The falling snow just adds to the ... (more)

Wabash 1070, Norfolk Southern's sixteenth heritage unit, works with 1069 during a multiple-unit test run. For more information, visit w... (more)

Westbound Kyle plow train hit flangeway ice in a crossing at Kanorado on the Kanas-Colorado border derailing the plow and two of the three locomotives. The locomotives were soon rerailed, but the ... (more)

After derailing while trying to back into the museum the evening before, just about every maintenance crew from Oakland to Truckee is on hand to make sure there aren't any more mishaps, before 844... (more)

Trout through the ice: An eastbound BNSF intermodal train cruises by Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Montana, on January 25, 2013. Not long before the arrival of this train, the young daughter of o... (more)

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)

Round the loop! A southbound BNSF intermodal train rounds the world-famous Tehachapi Loop.

A wreck damaged number 7 sits in the Storage track at Savannah after hitting an automobile in Rennart NC.

It's not quite as fancy as Switzerland's Landwasserviadukt, but New Zealand makes do with the locality of Staircase (population:0). After leaving an unmanned passing loop of the same name, wes... (more)

The December '13' date was certainly not lucky for the Thursday morning arrival of New England Central local train 601 into the White River Junction yard. The NECR GP38 3857 picked the switch fro... (more)