Closing the doors to load coal for Eastman Chemical.

The 3rd shift NS local shoves back to tie up near the Kodak Eastman plant as the sunrise begins to warm the day. They pass by a Jordan Spreader slowly rusting to the rails on a parallel stub trac... (more)

Bruised and battered but everyone is OK. Before sunup UP 7193 (ES44AC) was pulling with three other units a long container train on the Greeley Sub and hit a semi that was hauling pumping equipme... (more)

”Better By A Dam Site”

Southwestern Georgia’s Chattahoochee Industrial Railroad survived part of its early (1960’s) existence by transporting materials for the construction... (more)

Train derailment on the east slope of Veta Pass high above the Middle Creek valley.

Brand new wheel sets from Transcona sit at the ready.

NS 8115 & 8075 were pulling an empty hopper train of KGLX aluminum hoppers for synthetic gypsum from USG Washingtonville Plant. A 3 car derailment occurred seventeen cars from the rear end. The de... (more)

A local resident of Thomson, Illinois who lives near the ex-Milwaukee Road trackage has a restored bay window caboose on display in his backyard.

A depressing sight at this once thriving coal loadout, as CSX coal gons rust away.

In 2010, I was assigned as project manager to get the dome car wrapped for its fall foliage tour on the Adirondack and Cardinal. The design is by artist Michael Schwab, and is consistent with many... (more)

Green Mountain’s Bellows Falls – Rutland train rolls northwest past the Highway 103 crossing at Spring Lake, Vermont.

Orders at Porter. The conductor receives his orders as his train rolls west through Porter Junction in 1977.

The beautiful private car Cyrus K. Holiday cools its heels on the rear of the detouring southbound Coast Starlight as it changes crews at the original Southern Pacific depot in Bakersfield prior t... (more)

GATX tank cars came in a seemingly unlimited variety of sizes and paint schemes, for many specialized loads. Here a car of SCM titanium dioxide rolls through Emmaus, Pennsylvania.

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Boeing-Vertol produced the US Standard Light Rail Vehicle. A total of 275 articulated railcars were sold to Boston’s MBTA and San Francisco’s MUNI. The... (more)