"Tow Service at NRO" Amtrak 66, the "Night Owl", heads east through New Rochelle Station with ex-Metroliner Cab Car 9635 leading. 9635 was part of the night's Amtrak "Tow Service" consist ... (more)

Union Pacific’s SD45’s always appealed to me, with their flared radiators and two-digit numbers in a fleet that numbered in the thousands. Unfortunately, they eluded me in my few visits to the... (more)

It snowed alot! This was the first day of a back to back atorm that dumped a substantial amount of snow on Donner. After heavy snow all day, a lull came through creating a very clear and scenic vi... (more)

Concurrent activity. Road power is being turned on the wye, MOW personal are cleaning switches and tracks as a plow extra arrives from Newport Vt.

A Canadian Pacific stack train is westbound at Haig between Katz and Choate on CP’s Cascade Subdivision through scenic Fraser Canyon in British Columbia on August 31, 2007.

CN 2192 Takes one for the Team CNIC's Peoria Local slams into drifts between Delavan and Green Valley, Illinois as the crew radios the ''diesel doctor'' to report a cracked conductors side window... (more)

A Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western coal train arrives at Washburn, North Dakota, on August 28, 2018. DMVW EMD SD50F Nos. 5454 and 5418 power the train of DMVX hoppers specially-equipped with cove... (more)

Caltrain 900, the proverbial “class unit” of later EMD manufactured F40PH-2s, makes its way through the Bayshore Station on September 25, 2015. This station is within the confines of the City ... (more)

Central Maine & Quebec 9010 West is crossing the trestle at Eastman on a cold and crisp January afternoon.

The big 5-0! When the Penn Central Railroad began revenue Metroliner Service on January 16, 1969 with train 2000 operating from Washington D.C. to New York's Penn Station, a new era in American ra... (more)

Amtrak EMD SDP40F 502 and 501. Photographer Mike Bledsoe.

Vanishing heritage. If you thought that the former NYC signal bridge near MP30 in Scarborough, NY on the Hudson Line would be gone before the last of the old Tappan Zee Bridge, pay your bookie bec... (more)

METX 405 pulls to a stop at the Glenview depot with Metra MD-N train 2125 in tow.

Running right on schedule, UTA Frontrunner cabcar 121 leads its train into the southern terminus in Provo, Utah

Empire Builders meet
We’re looking out the door window on the rear sleeper of Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder moving through a siding over a frigid and barren eastern Montana lands... (more)