Birds Eye View. NS local H3A is returning to Abrams yard with a large train of empty tank cars. Drivers on parallel I-76 have a good view of the train as it approaches Flat Rock Tunnel on... (more)

Loaded gravel train 69723 of Makies AG from Gettnau Güteranlage via Luzern-Zug to Affoltern am Albis with 11 Falls cars and railcars BDe 576 # 056 "Elisi" and # 049 "Babette" i... (more)

Erie Mining F9 4214 exits Cramer Tunnel with an empty ore train in the waning light of a nice evening in September of 1987.

Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's F7(B) No. 919. Originally NC&StL 918, then L&N 1918, then Clinchfield 869, then Seaboard Coast Line 117, and finally CSX 119.

13 cm higher

In January 1981 in the Villeneuve Saint Georges AMPSE shops, the TGV SE #16 had bigger wheels than sister trainset #04 because it was modified for the "TGV100&quo... (more)

The Twin ECOs

The matched set of NYS&W ECO units lead an incredibly unusual daylight local Eastbound from Sparta with a lengthy consist of empty cars having dropped loaded cars... (more)

Rush hour in Frankfurt, 07:02 am

No longer wearing its PRLX patch on its nose, but the C&O progress logo, ex-CSX SD70ACe owned by PRLX and on lease to NS leads 36T past CP Cam on the Southern Tier.

Locomotives:
PRLX 48... (more)

Morning rush
Two Metra commuter trains make their way into Chicago Union Station passing Taylor Street in Chicago, Illinois, on the morning of November 9, 2017. The two inbounds are EMD-... (more)

Something different. Approaching the Canada/U.S border near Lacolle, Amtrak 95 with one coach is pulling the Adirondack train set from the previous northbound run from Montreal back to Albany NY.

A single NS GP38-2 runs long hood forward to bring two gons of scrap and a long train of empty steel-coil cars into the Arcelor Mittal yard in East Chicago.

Locomotives:
NS 5360 GP38-2

Big MACs in Bootlegger
Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC Nos. 8024 and 8241 power the Potash local down UP’s incredibly scenic former Rio Grande Cane Creek Subdivision at milepost 30 in Bootle... (more)