It is just after midnight and the 2017 Canadian Pacific Holiday Train has stopped for US Customs inspection after just crossing the border at Rouses Point, NY. The train will then deadhead to Alba... (more)

A high-speed train ICE 4 did some testruns in Switzerland. After the end of the tests, Re 420 125 heads the train to Schaffhausen, border station between Switzerland and Germany. On the German lin... (more)

Bridge out! Where? To look at this picture no one would think that approximately 55 hours prior, 5 loaded grain cars derailed and completely wiped out the previous bridge and spilled all their con... (more)

Sold to the Illinois Railway Museum by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, the locomotive was towed to Altoona, PA for a cosmetic restoration, which never happened. This summer (2017) it made i... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway’s official machine shop cat, lovingly named “Dirt”, will rest comfortably over the next few evenings while locomotives #40 and #93 cool down inside the confines of the shop... (more)

There must not have been too much traffic on Kellogg Boulevard, as my father was able to record this going away photo of the Rock Island train from the previous upload (FA-1m 136, F7a 107, and Eri... (more)

The weekly Pan Am Southern Bellows Falls, VT to Portland, ME limestone slurry train is seen rolling through the New England Central Railroad Bellows Falls tunnel with MEC ex-CSXT B40-8 5933 and 59... (more)

As this grain train was arriving in Harrisonburg, Virginia today, an unfortunate derail occurred with several loaded grain cars hitting the ground. Traffic was blocked on the nearby Route 11 for ... (more)

Finally done for the night. Amtrak crews make the final preparations before taking the train to the yard where it will await its next assignments the next day.

"Kosciuszko Bridge Demo on the Lower Montauk" At exactly 8AM, October 1st, the old Kosciuszko Bridge was imploded in order to speed up the demolition process making way for the second new ... (more)

Over 8,000 tones of worn Abrams tanks are seen being slugged upgrade into Woodford on a warm afternoon on Tehachapi. Making a somewhat rare appearance on a DODX train, two mid-train DPU's can be s... (more)

Three trains are seen in this view! SP 9179 heads West on the main at Canyon while SP 8561 waits at the East end of the siding. In the background, a Santa Fe train heads Eastbound on the North M... (more)

"LIRR Intermodal Bogie Rolls Over the Montauk Cutoff" One of Long Island Rail Road's experimental "Intermodal Bogies" gets dragged down the Montauk Cuttoff to Sunnyside Yard to be cut up f... (more)

Desert storm!

In the central Iran desert just before a thunderstom (with rain), the strong winds generate a short but impressive sand storm.