N&W 2135 resting between assignments at Roanoke, VA || February 1957 Photo by Bob Drake, collection of Tom Sink.

Ann Arbor car ferry MV Viking is taking a load of freight cars at the GB&W car ferry slip in Kewaunee, WI on June 17, 1981.

This Chessie Passenger special appears to be in Michigan, perhaps Battle Creek or Grand Rapids. Photographer is unknown, this was given to me many years back from an old friend. If anybody knows... (more)

Ex GWR Castle class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgecumbe hauls the First Moor Street Express Railtour past the boats on the Oxford canal at Heyford. Despite a recent thaw there is still ice on the canal.

Since I moved to Connecticut in 1995, there have only been two types of Conrail/CSX power regularly assigned to Cedar Hill Yard. Conrail used B23-7s almost exclusively, then when CSX succeeded th... (more)

California Northern 502 pulls a small cut of only 14 cars up to the Harrington switch where they will son begin to do some work.

Workers ease a heavy component onto a 16-axle depressed center flat car at the Port of Duluth. The car is expected to a take a CP/DME routing to South Dakota this week as a special move.

Providence & Worcester loaded ethanol train K666 rolls north along the Thames River in Groton, CT and past the USS Nautilus at the US Navy Sub Force Museum. Canon EOS 40D, Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX ... (more)

First of a new model on the BNSF, the dynamic-brake equipped 3GS21B-DE, brand new 1294 is shown awaiting the BNSF local in Paducah and Louisville's North Yard. These units are waybilled to Los A... (more)

A passenger special on the Great Lakes Central, is seen after running around its train at Shepherd, Mi, with GLC 385 leading four passenger cars, as people walk back from getting drinks at the loc... (more)

In low light just before sunset, my bro and I see PM 1225 nearing the "North Pole" with the setting sun looking about as bright as the headlight on the locomotive.

Not doing much work today.

The Huckleberry Railroad's K-27 "Mudhen" pulls the 4PM excursion train eastbound across the Genesee Trestle on a rather gloomy Friday. Locomotive 464 is one of only two remaining examples of the ... (more)

I'll take your horse and raise you a plume and a barn!  NKP #765 makes her way through the rural countryside of Michigan, en route to Alma. Well over 700 excited passengers were along for the r... (more)