Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 J-Class No. 611 leads the Roanoke-Lynchburg round trip excursion westbound past the N&W CPL's at Blue Ridge, Va.

A string of EMD and some GE locomotive sit in Norfolk Southern's storage line at Roanoke, Va., during the morning hours of May 8. 2016 was a tough year for Class I railroads, idling older locomoti... (more)

Norfolk Southern GE B32-8 No. 524, formerly numbered NS 3524, sits in Progress Rail' Roanoke facility where it, along with a fleet of retired boxcars, are being scrapped. NS retired much of its B3... (more)

A manifest freight gets head room in Canadian National's Homewood Yard, sporting former Bessemer & Lake Erie No. 878 on the head end.

Ready. Set. Go. Metra's evening rushhour lineup sits near Amtrak's Chicago and Metra facility near downtown.

An afternoon Metra commuter is posed in front of the Chicago skyline in a typical spring day in the windy city.

A Canadian Pacific local switches a fleet of covered hoppers on Duluth's south side.

A Wisconsin Northern local switches a few covered hoppers near the town of Bloomer, Wis., on a few spring-like day in the Midwest. The matching pair of EMD GP15-1s are being assisted with a push-p... (more)

An Illinois Central EMD SD40-3 leads an ore train into the yard near Proctor, Minn.

Climbing the grade near Fairbanks, 146 loads of ore make their way toward Two Harbors under the lead power of four classic, and matching, Canadian National EMDs.

CN's uniquely built former DMIR ore cars roll through Hoyt Lake on CN's Iron Range Subdivision to Two Harbors, Minn., slicing between a pair of searchlight signals.

A loaded ore train heads for Two Harbors with a fleet of Canadian National EMDs doing the honors. The train is passing searchlight signals still in use on this section of CN's Iron Range Subdivisi... (more)

Amtrak ACS-64 Sprinters Nos. 629 and 619 sit at Washington Station Union Terminal on the evening of April 24. The new Siemens-built electrics are the workhorses of the Northeast Corridor, succeedi... (more)

2016 marked the end of an era for the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus and its elephants-by-rail. The elephants were removed from the circus and the company's stock cars were repositione... (more)

It's not everyday you watch a steam locomotive take the backroads of West Virginia to reposition itself for a series of new excursions. That's exactly what happened with the Durbin & Greenbrier Va... (more)