Their servicing complete, four of the Rio Grande's 2-8-2 K-36 locomotives await their next call to duty at the Durango roundhouse. These days, however, the majority of their duties involve hauling... (more)

The Rio Grande's regular passenger train to Silverton has just crossed the Tefft Bridge and is now hugging the north back of the Animas River on this crystal clear fall day.

Under Kodachrome skies and with a tiny rainbow appearing in the trackside fountain, Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 765 leads Saturday morning's Steam in the Valley roundtrip back toward downtown Akron on... (more)

As this year's Lackawanna Railfest festivities wound down, the Amtrak display train was backed off of the display track alongside the entrance driveway to be staged for departure the next morning.... (more)

Cakes on a train! Amtrak's newest advertising venture, a wrapped Acela trainset promoting the TLC show "Cake Boss," speeds past the former PRR Nassau Tower just north of the Princeton Junc... (more)

With only a few minutes of sunlight left on a hot July evening, CSXT 4423 and 7 cars emerge from the woods and cross Lake Manalapan on the return trip from Freehold to Browns Yard. The crew will t... (more)

Wilmington & Western 0-6-0 58 catches the last few minutes of light as it passes the abandoned, collapsing No. 1 Mill of the National Vulcanized Fibre Company, built in the early 20th Century. The... (more)

With American flags and bunting blowing in the wind, Wilmington & Western 0-6-0 58 begins its journey northward out of Greenbank station with the annual Fireworks Express to Hockessin on July 4th.

Happy Independence Day. For this year's Fireworks Express trip to Hockessin, the crew of Wilmington & Western 0-6-0 58 experimented with a new type of fuel. After the fireworks get shoveled... (more)

Happy Independence Day. Americans flags fly and families lounge on the grass in front of the Red Caboose Motel as 2-10-0 90 returns to Strasburg with the last train of the day on this cryst... (more)

Stampede! The charging (iron) horse has spooked the cows grazing and sent them into a sprint across the field.

Baltimore & Ohio F7 722 emerges from the south end of the Trough and crosses the South Branch of the Potomac River at Sycamore Bridge with the local freight bound for Petersburg. Thanks to the Sou... (more)

Speeding through the West Virginia woods. Deep in the valleys of the Mountain State, a set of F7s lead a short mixed freight southward toward Romney. Thanks to the South Branch Valley Railr... (more)

CSXT GP40-2 4419 backs up rush hour traffic on County Route 615 as it leads a 26-car local down the Amboy Secondary toward its customers on the Dayton Branch. Looks like it's time to change the lo... (more)

The conductor lets a couple of women know how long until the train leaves while 1223's fireman enjoys his last few moments of peace before getting back to work as the 4-4-0 races through the night... (more)