On August 31, 2018, Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s “wayfreight” has just finished switching at Coal Creek and departs northbound onto the main line headed for the CP interchange at Max as it ... (more)

A cold and dreary morning greets Reading & Northern 425 as she storms out of Port Clinton, working hard to get the train full of excited tourists up to speed on their way to Jim Thorpe for the day... (more)

Early morning freight service headed for Sumpter. Sumpter Valley Railway's beautiful Mikado steam engine #19, built by ALCO in 1920 for the original Sumpter Valley Railway, throws a nice reflectio... (more)

Sunrise in McEwen on a gorgeous Fall day. Sumpter Valley's Heisler #3 is ready for departure with a local mixed train headed for Sumpter. The rising sun nicely illuminates the plume.

35A exits Allegheny Tunnel with an ex-Conrail SD80MAC on point, passing by the PRR caboose on display.

An eastbound BNSF empty grain train curves along the scenic Kootenai River between Yakt and Troy, Montana, on October 7, 2018.

Polson Logging Mikado steam locomotive #2 is crossing the wooden trestle over Stasek Slough on the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad during sunset.

An empty grain train from River Gate, OR, to Berea, ND, is working over the Jamestown Sub few miles west of Cleveland. Pretty crazy how the railroad built right thru alot of these small lakes that... (more)

Former McCloud River Railroad steam locomotive 2-6-2 Prairie #25 (built by ALCO in 1925) is crossing the bridge over an inlet on Nehalem Bay on its way to Wheeler on the Oregon Coast Scenic Coast ... (more)

Just Like Old Times……..Sort Of

The Union Pacific absorbed the Chicago & North Western in 1995, but some memories linger on. Here UP’s C&NW heritage unit leads a Global 3 – Global 2... (more)

Let the foreigner lead! CSX 4589 (SD70MAC, Spirit of Nashville) has been on lease to the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway since a derailment over the summer caused a power shortage. Sinc... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Go Rail Sponsored SD60E 6963 leads CSX  W830 northbound through Union City, Georgia on the A&WP/WofA Subdivision a little before sunrise on October 10, 2014.

Back home in the Pacific Northwest. Polson Logging Co. Mikado #2 looks right at home on the northernmost of the two trestles over Stasek Slough as she hauls a cut of freight cars from Tilla... (more)

New meets old...meets older. York Railway's newest locomotive, now ex-LTEX GP15-1 it had been leasing, is paired with one of it's oldest locomotives for the trip back to Lincoln Yard in West York ... (more)

A pair of former Conrail EMD four axle units waiting to begin switching at the DART facility along Doremus Avenue.