One of GE's earliest diesels, 1931-built Bush Terminal Railroad 5, works the Brooklyn waterfront back in 1970. These interesting little engines and the railroad itself are long gone, but some of t... (more)

Beautiful mural, by artists May Sun and Paul Diez, at the east entrance to Los Angeles Union Station - LAUS, principal railway station owned by LAMTA - Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Auth... (more)

Spring if finally sprung as the ice on the Connecticut River and and in Webb Pond has mostly receded and Vermont Rail System traffic is heavy. The head end of the Bellows Falls local, symbol DASW... (more)

Between Walong and Marcel in Kern County, and after crossing the Tehachapi loop, BNSF double stack train continues climbing towards the summit of the pass in the small city of Tehachapi, between t... (more)

Former Montana Rail Link EMD GP9 #115 was picked up in Livingston, MT by BNSF and delivered to CN who then delivered it here to Minnesota's Iron Range where it was re-lettered to NSHX (North Shore... (more)

CNW 821 is on Milwaukee Road tracks as it passes thru Sparta, WI at dusk in April of 1976. Bob Ferge Kodachrome from my collection.

After the 2-6-2 Eb 3/5 # 9 was turned, the switchman takes his old bike to return to the station. # 9 was built in 1910 by Maffei/Munich for the Bodensee-Toggenburg Bahn. From 1933 to 1965 she was... (more)

An all-60s lineup! A pair of Canadian Pacific SD60s leads a rack train west as an NS GP60 idles in the background.

CP 147:
CP 6294 SD60
CP 6252 SD60

Local: <... (more)

Interesting combination of power at the Standby track at GE. ATSF / CP/ NS Power await rebuild here at GE of Fort Worth. Front Engine CP 9526 Rocks the old CP Rail scheme along with the "RCMP... (more)

A construction-related weekend power outage on Metro North's New Haven Line led to this sight of an HEP-equipped Amtrak E8 towing a pantographs-down AEM7 and its Washington-bound train through Mil... (more)

When I started on the Milwaukee Road in the 1960's the Portage yard engine was usually an FM switcher or an Alco. In the 70's the Milwaukee got the MP15's and that pretty much was it until I left ... (more)

UP double stack begins your trip by Union Pacific Yuma subdivision, going through the elevated Colton crossing over the BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision, immediately after leaving eastward from Wes... (more)

Beach bodies and wide cabs? Usually the BNSF runs at night on this line, however Metrolink had a lot of BNSF power on lease due to safety concerns with their cab cars during the summer of 2016.

Eastbound Hartwell train over the original line to Airline Jct and downtown Hartwell creeps through the S curves along Airline-Goldmine Road shortly before arriving at Airline. Upon arrival at Air... (more)

Beauty seldom seen! Amtrak train 5 breezes along the Colorado river in ruby canyon. Seen here between switches at Shale. This location is seldom seen due to difficult accessibility. This lo... (more)