Pando siding and the spur near Camp Hale are still tracked, as is most (all?) of the UP Tennessee Pass Line. But if this line is ever brought out of embargo, they're going to have to bring a saw.

New England Central GP38 3851 is moving damaged Amtrak P42DC #102 northbound toward Montpelier Jct., Vermont, past the Dog River Farm on Sunday, October 11. The Amtrak P42 had just been moved ont... (more)

On a long abandoned siding of the Walking Horse & Eastern sits this pair of long abandoned cabooses. I know they've been here since at least 2006, and maybe much longer. How and why they ended up... (more)

A bumpstop in the overgrown remnants of the CNJ train shed in Jersey City. This type of train shed was known as bush-type sheds, named after its designer A. Lincoln Bush. It was built in 1914 and ... (more)

This EBT 70,000 lb. capacity hopper is in a fight for it's life. First the protective paint came off, and the rusting began. Then a little sprig of a plant took root near the front journal. Larger... (more)

That others may live..... Running a fleet of 90+ year-old steam engines that have to work just as hard each day as they ever did back in the steam era is a very difficult endeavor to sustai... (more)

RIP Huell Howser - The rail line through the Carrizo Gorge was constructed starting in 1906 and it opened in 1919. Here, an old Santa Fe hopper stands on a siding at Goat Canyon next to ... (more)

Dos Cabezas - At one time there was a station building located at Dos Cabezas and a water tower fed from a spring up the hill to the left. The water tower still remains and it once fe... (more)

Two Over the Side - It was a long hike over the mountain from Dos Cabezas, but it was worth the view on the other side. Here - Looking into the gorge from near the tracks, two wrecked box ... (more)

The Upton Ave. Bridge takes another hit.

Old rusty wheels describe the fate of the Port of Tillamook Bay very well. With a good part of the mainline destroyed in a rainstorm a couple years ago, these old BN GP9's are stranded in Tillamo... (more)

Tennessee Pass through Belden, which was a processing plant for zinc mined in this area. Pretty much a ghost town these days, and kind of eerie when you first come up on it. Both the mining oper... (more)