Cass Shay no. 2 approaches the crossing at Back Mountain Road during the 2016 Cass Fall Photography Workshop.

CBR 2448 leads its train bound for Eugene as it crosses North Tenmile Lake near Lakeside, Oregon on June 21, 2018. Photo by Dan. R. Scheidell.

"Alco Power Pack Ready for Scrap" Long Island Rail Road's rebuilt Alco Power Pack, LI 3100, sits on the River Track at Wheelspur Facility in Long Island City awaiting the scrapper's torch.... (more)

Nice view of the Diesel Servicing facility in BNSF's Ex-Frisco Tennessee Yard including the turntable to nowhere!!

A Proctor Roadswitch crew lifts 48 cars of Minorca limestone up Proctor Hill as a major fire rages at the Husky oil refinery in Superior. Fortunately there were no fatalities and the fire was exti... (more)

Welcome to Chattanooga...railroad closed! On July 29-30, 2018, a small army of CSX, NS, and contract crews were given a complete 48-hour shutdown of the 23rd Interlocking through which CSX's W&A ... (more)

On April 9, 2016, an eastbound Union Pacific loaded oil train pops out of Tunnel 1 into a small pocket of sunshine (literally) on a gorgeous spring afternoon in Coal Creek Canyon.

Amtrak 68 the "Adirondack" had mechanical problems with the dash8 514 requiring a special move to bring an extra locomotive and coach from Albany to Montreal. Here is 68 passing through ... (more)

Vermont Rail System's former Ringling Brothers Pie Car (ex-RBBX #63010) turned Green Mountain Railroad 3010, is seen getting a lift (Pie in the Sky, if you will...) for the replacement of its whee... (more)

Last light
BNSF’s Ayer turn switches at Ayer, Washington, in the very last bit of sunlight on September 19, 2016. The train is operating on trackage rights over Union Pacific’s Spokane ... (more)

UP 1943 traverses the world famous Horseshoe Curve

Silence in the snow covered Rocky Mountains is broken up as BNSF's Provo, UT to Denver, CO manifest snakes down Big Ten Curve on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on January 12th, 2019.

Winterail has come and gone, but the trains still roll on. At a point about halfway between two elevation gaining horseshoe curves about 3 miles west of Summit, a short 9 car Hauler creaks and gr... (more)

The Silver Stars rounds the Selma Connection from the NS H-Line to the CSX A-Line.