American Ductile #103 at Birmingham, AL || April 1985

“Hey, when you go over to the east plant, can you take a couple of sheets of plywood along?” The New Jersey Zinc Company rostered a small fleet of Alco switchers to work within and between its... (more)

A pair of FEC GP40-2s sit out a quiet Sunday morning at City Point. The lead unit and the cars that follow will be added to southbound rock train 335 in the early hours of Monday morning. The la... (more)

Portent of things to come – General Electric B40-8 demonstrator 808 greets a new day in front of the NYS&W enginehouse in Binghamton, New York. The demonstration was a success, prompting the Sus... (more)

CFS 1828 to Joffre by a snowy afternoon

NS East Point to Maocn manifest, 139 stands in Forest Park, Georgia on the NS Griffin District prior to it's evening departure with a pair of what will become short lived Citi Rail (Citi Group) SD... (more)

Northbound Alaska RR coal empty with a fill of freight added on the head end at Seward and Portage.

One of first trains on reopened Siskiyou Line, meeting its counterpart (on left) from Medford, OR at Hornbrook, CA

San Luis & Rio Grande power leads a train of storage tankcars being kept on the former Piedmont & Northern outside of Charlotte, NC on this beautiful January day. This power came to P&N once Iowa... (more)

To the trained eye, one can identify the depot as a GTW prototype, and a literate individual can read that those geeps say RailAmerica, simple right? Well, the depot is now an Elks Lodge, and has ... (more)

The engineer started up the grade to Oakland Heights with just 16 pulling, but the SW1 apparently is having a problem. Not to worry, as Alco 18 is following a few hundred feet behind, and can com... (more)

Sanitary District SW1 #2 returns east with empties for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District in Stickney.

GRR quarry job Georgetown

Trona Railway's potash train begins its trip towards Searles, Calif. to interchange with the Union Pacific as dust sets over the Mojave Desert. With air crisp and cold, the sounds of former Southe... (more)

As a mid winter storm sets in on Canton, North Carolina, Blue Ridge Southern crosses the Pigeon River after completing a days work on the Murphy Branch,