Apparently people don't know how to read the "DO NOT PARK ON TRACKS" sign posted on the building. The Ballard Terminal Railroad had to have 6 total cars towed away. I guess that's their way to lea... (more)

Backing into the salt mine (sic). Thankfully the orange and black units were up front.

One-third of the Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI) Columbia City Structural and Rail Mill motive power fleet is seen delivering 140' rail sections to the welding portion of the operation in the mill. Pho... (more)

Plymouth Fleximotive belonging to the Bogue Chitto Valley, a Louisiana intrastate railroad that hauled sand. Photographed at Sun, LA in May 1972.

MMA 811's lone B39-8 is seen here coming south past one of the feed mills in Ange-Gardien. The train itself is headed north from Farnham to Ste-Rosalie, but the crew ran light about a half-mile up... (more)

1992 was nearly 20 years ago but this railroad still runs in the streets of Brooklyn as NYNJ Rail. One EMD is assigned to Brooklyn and another at the dock in Jersey City, NJ. Note locomotive is ... (more)

The eastbound W&W "Sandman" was clawing its way up Round Hill, just east of Hayfield, VA, on April 21, 1980. The climb up Round Hill was brutal, but the climb up Gainesboro Hill was worse, requir... (more)

Many a short line led a hand-to-mouth existence. Norfolk, Franklin and Danville and its predecessor, the Atlantic and Danville, surely fell into this category. Before N&W purchased the A&D and c... (more)

We took at trip on vacation across the US deliberately avoiding Interstate Highways (it's the way to go). We were blasting across the desert, going to Four Corners I think and there was catenary ... (more)

A very unique railroad existed on Chicago's far south side. Owned by the H. Bairstow & Company, the approximately one mile long Indian Hill and Iron Range Railway served only one purpose. The rail... (more)

Workstained Foster Yeoman SW1001 #44, Western Yeoman II, shunts wagons at the FY quarry at Merehead in September 1988. This locomotive was obtained by FY in 1980 and was the EMD flag waver that wa... (more)

Tennessee Copper Rwy ore train heading toward the smelter at Copperhill, TN // Oct 1974