BNSF 4792 looks more like a model train than a real one as it bends around tight curves through rock cuts on its 2.2% grade climb from Skykomish to the Cascade Tunnel. This stack/vehicle train was... (more)

The last NS P59 rolls towards Sylva. The following Saturday, the Southern heritage of the Murphy Branch became nothing but history as Blue Ridge Southern took control of the line.

1918-1966 Rains was one of the closely settled coal camps that ran together and was mined by Liberty Fuels. There was a time this area north of helper produced 300 coal cars a day of coal from se... (more)

This was somewhere around Alamosa, CO. I was vacationing in the Midwest and happen to spot this from a local road, maybe half a mile away. It was on a very rarely used segment of track, possibly a... (more)

It's just another day on Tybee St. in Sandersville, Ga. as the daily run heads north on this small but yet efficient nine mile long shortline located in central Georgia.

Looking east along the former mainline of the Wisconsin Central (Soo Line/DSS&A) at Diamond Junction. The signals have been deactivated after WC abandoned this track in 1997 after purchasing Union... (more)

I missed out on the North Shore and the Roarin' Elgin. So I made it a goal not to miss the last interurban's last street running. While I would have preferred South Shore orange, I'll take this! ... (more)

With the Mississippi River slowly receding back to it's banks, the CP has resumed operations by "push/pulling" trains through the remaining high water. The conductor and student are rid... (more)

NYSW GP40 #3040 leads Train UT-1 right down the middle of Schuyler Street in Utica, NY as it begins its trip to Sangerfield.

Pushing through a sea of high weeds and thorned mesquite, an outbound train of wheat and sand slowly creeps down the main track.

M&E 18 is approaching the Mercer Street grade crossing in Dover as it passes a historic manufacturing structure. The crew is returning back to Morristown after switching Rockaway.

Little pieces of the Missabe Road are still to be found albeit they are getting harder and harder to find. Here is an old Adlake lantern used on a short spur to an industry long gone that was onc... (more)

The M&E 18's conductor protects the crossing as the locomotive crosses busy Morris Street in Dover. The locomotive is returning to Dover after switching plastic extruder customers in Rockaway.

Old 113 crosses the Left Fork of the Buckhannon River with 25 loads of coal. This short coal hauler is rarely photographed, but exceedingly interesting.

Wait, what? Street running with CSX should be in Kentucky, not Indiana. This NS grain train however has a pair of CSX engines on the point rolling through the street running on the NS Marion Bra... (more)