It takes a lot of work to move a 500+ ton locomotive, and that includes laying track just to get the beast out of confinement. These Union Pacific "gandy dancers" are laying temporary "snap track... (more)

As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take many days... (more)

A new trip together with trains Atacama desert. Beautiful view of Carcote salt lake, from the San Martin slope. A westbound FCAB ore train coming from Ollague and final destination Angamos harbour... (more)

RLK 4057 shoves a pair of D7R steam generators onto the seldom used dock spur to be loaded onto a ship for export.

The now regular weeknight Bellows Falls, Vermont, to East Deerfield, Massachusetts train BFED for Pan Am Railways is seen exiting the Bellows Falls tunnel with MEC GP40 350 (a unit equipped with c... (more)

Takin' it to the Streets: Three B&P motors creep along Main Street in West Brownsville with hoppers to be filled at Consol's Bailey Mine.

Crew members of the Catskill Mountain Railroad ride the front of Alco RS-1 401, ready to flag the next crossing.

While everyone else talks about snow, it's a rainy autumn afternoon in Guelph. The daily Monday to Friday roadswitcher out of Guelph Jct is seen heading back south to finish off PDI Elizabeth St a... (more)

The fall colors are peaking in Central Jersey as SA2 picks up an empty hopper from Mauser. Mauser always keeps a set of covered hoppers on site. CSX 2814 is moving the entire set to collect the ... (more)

Two NS C40-9Ws and an CSX AC4400CW lead BNSF's Laurel, MT to Denver, CO train down the middle of Mason Street in Fort Collins, CO.

Forty years ago, in 1973, the last train rumbled across this line. Today, this is a place for the intrepid explorer to enjoy solitude while pondering the vestiges of a lost way of rural life. It... (more)

Ghostly Remains, Part 1. With Halloween approaching, and with the warm tones of autumn quickly fading, a series of twilight photos of the abandoned train station at Gerrish Depot, New Hamp... (more)

Built in 1882 this "Eighth Wonder of the World" lasted 121 years before it was destroyed by a F1 Tornado a little over ten years ago. At the time of the Tornado it was fourth-tallest railway bridg... (more)

Grafton and Upton Railroad's F7 leads GP18 #1750 and two tank cars south towards a customer in Upton, through the tight curves and peak fall colors in downtown Grafton.

With engineer Tom at the controls, the SMSU glides over the iconic THIS IS INDIAN LAND bridge in Garden River. The message on the bridge has stood for decades upon decades, and regularly is... (more)