Fire in front of the steamloc BFD 9 'Gletschhorn' (former Brig-Furka-Disentis-Bahn), built 1914, in the depot Gletsch. The work is finished. In the foreground this is a very very special grill wit... (more)

Part of the workflow.

Rio Grande coal train No. 735 rambles down the eastward main track near Sutro on Sept. 2, 1989. A dramatic brush fire, set accidentally by two young kids, leaves its mark on the flanks of 9088 ft.... (more)

In the quietest moments of a winter storm, fire and ice converge in the tangled trackwork at Metra's busiest interlocking in the Chicagoland area.

Kicking up the heels
Now that winter’s icy grip has arrived, another scene from this past autumn feels a bit nicer and warmer. On October 2, 2013, at Frog Pond west of Trout Creek, Mon... (more)

A csx track worker heats up the rail to expand it to repair a broken joint at mp 422 on track 4 headed west out of Buffalo, N.Y.

The engineer adds coal to increase the steam pressure of Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad #3, a 0-4-0 steam engine built in 1927 by the H.K. Porter Co. in Pittsburgh, PA.

Icy temperatures (- 20° C) in the morning at the steam engine base at Wernigerode: frozen valves are heated. Wernigerode, Saxony-Anhalt

Crispy... BNSF 7889 is set out at La Plata, MO, after catching fire not far from town.

Preheating the Rail - BNSF MOW (Maintenance of Way) workers use an Oxy-Acetylene torch to preheat the ends to two adjoining sections of 136lb. rail in preparation to welding them together... (more)

A UP Section Gang performs a rope burn on a section of rail on a siding in the yard at La Salle, CO. One of the worker swings a sledge hammer on the rail to place it back into position.

Modern art ? No, it is a burned out passenger car, the reason was arson.

Seen through at boxpox drivers of an SY 2-8-2, a worker in Jalainur's massive locomotive workshop welds a new driver axles box. Soon, the axlebox will be placed and another 2-8-2 will return to wo... (more)

The shop crew of the Strasburg Rail Road captured working on projects. Work progresses on in house projects as well as outside contract work. Here a steel dowel is milled flat while in the backg... (more)