New meets old as two brand new IHB gensets pass the soon to be closed Calumet Tower.

Just before a spring shower hits Clinton, an empty coal train headed for the Powder River Basin makes a crew change. I never would have said this to the guys in the photo (I had friends on both c... (more)

The tall and short of it. The Army bought them and the Army doesn't want them. Numbers 6000, 6001 & 6002 are now sitting on the ground, they have been stripped of all useful parts and what is left... (more)

The tall and short of it. The Army bought them and the Army doesn't want them. Numbers 6000, 6001 & 6002 are now sitting on the ground, they have been stripped of all useful parts and what is left... (more)

Role Reversal
Old wheels ranging in size from 36 inch to 28 inch diameters earn their last revenue miles by riding atop a freight car instead of underneath it head for the scrap / sal... (more)

The oldest railway bridge in the world built in 1725 at a cost of £2000. Landowners in the North Durham area wanted a route to the river Tyne to take their coal to the ships waiting to transport ... (more)

Slug 2301 begins to pull at the lead of K796 from under the loadout at the Carmuese Rock Quarry. The quarry switch sits at MP 45 on the Shenandoah Sub and is accessed via a spur. The train consist... (more)

This is cold weather railroading. Air temp was -13F with a wind-chill near -30F as this empty ore train for Hibbing Taconite kicked up fresh snow and rolled through a steam bank created by the nea... (more)

Pioneer 3054 pulls a healthy string of cars through downtown Napoleon on the Wabash Fifth District. The Maumee and Western Railroad is no more, and the ND&W has improved operations on the line gr... (more)

Leaving the flatlands of eastern Colorado and the Denver skyline quickly behind, an empty UP coal train storms uphill back toward the mines deep in the heart of the Colorado Rockies. Though not ea... (more)

Here is a pair of UP locomotives backing up into the Port Reading Yard with a single covered hopper (not seen). These two locomotives have uncoupled from their southbound ethanol tanker train whi... (more)

Always happy to find colorful consists like this 17 years after the merger. This set of locomotives will be the power for the Sunday southbound local to Mitchell, SD.

Farewell GCSR! A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. Sometimes a picture and a thousand words just can't tell the story. What do you see here? A crumbling railroad on the verge of... (more)

For a short time the NYSW was operating the D&H after Guilford looted it. A trio of NYSW SD-45s are in charge of an Eastbound running wrong main on Conrails Southern Tier Line at the Westbound 352... (more)