The Line Forms Here...

Tucked away in the Arizona desert near Benson is a spur with a long deadline of locomotives - reportedly, almost 300 of them stretching for about three miles! ... (more)

What a son tells his mother early on Sunday morning - "Mom, your car is stuck on the railroad track in downtown Duluth." Fortunately her insurance company paid the healthy fee to have it... (more)

It is interesting how a different focal length and different framing can change a view. Another of my photos of this train on Joso bridge was posted on RP a few weeks ago, that wide angle version... (more)

A look deep inside the East Broad Top Graveyard at Mt. Union. The Kovalchick Salvage Corporation decided not to scrap the railroad and when they bought it in 1956. In 1961, it officially became a ... (more)

American View is a Viewliner Theater Car created by the Beech Grove shops from prototype Viewliner Sleeper 2301, which was one of the last passenger car shells produced by the Budd Company in the ... (more)

Coal may not be what it used to be and the trains may not roll through the community of Sproul as often as they used to, but the loyal Chesapeake & Ohio style cantilever signals still guide trains... (more)

MILW 5056 rests in the scrapyard on Jones Island with some RR cranes and an old gondola. The U25B would sit here for several years before being donated to the Illinois RR Museum. The fleet is also... (more)

"SS United States"

A 43-year old EMD veteran meets a 65-year old Newport News Shipbuilding veteran. The sad part is the smaller switcher is still in service and has had... (more)

The southern most 200' of the Alaska Railroad is not in Alaska, but rather Washington State. On a nice summer evening in Seattle, the UP Barge job is unloading the barge that has the distinction... (more)

Porto Empedocle

With a train of colorful containers highlighting the numerous power robbing curves up the western slope of Beaumont Hill, also known as San Timoteo Canyon, an eastbound Union Pacific stack train s... (more)

Waiting on the Christmas Train. A small group of hardy Mainers brave a December snowstorm as they await the arrival of a northbound WW&F Christmas Train at the tiny flag stop in Alna Center... (more)

The first snow storm of year has hit Crozier Canyon during the afternoon of Christmas eve. Within an hour, nearly an inch and half of snow fell; turning Crozier into a winter wonderland. Here, a h... (more)

Exactly 20 years ago today, 10/4/1996, the train crew of Camas Prairie train 63606 is approximately 6 hours into their day. At Cottonwood, the crew set out some grain hoppers and ran around their... (more)

**Taken with Permission From NS & The Land Owner** Friday evening on Good Friday, NS empty coal 593 with the 4001 leading, hit a kink in the rail from the heat and derailed, both units landed o... (more)