The horse-drawn tramway on Spiekeroog is flagship and tourist attraction of the first order on this small island in the North Sea. Coachman and the horse Eddie are ready for departure back to the ... (more)

UP auto carrier train meets BNSF auto carrier train on the summit.

The southbound Gaudalupe Local to las Angeles crosses the old Southern Pacific Trestle across Gaviota State Beach. The park and the surrounding area is a great place to stay and enjoy trains.

The power for the LPCTAC has been turned on Tacoma Rail's Wye and is now headed back to the train, sitting on the Tacoma Main. Soon this set of power will once again cross the Puyallup River to d... (more)

For some reason the crew of the LPCTAC needed to turn their power. While BNSF has a turntable, I'm not sure if it's still in service and the roundhouse crew is gone by this time, so their next o... (more)

The aftermath of a major train derailment near Waycross gives us a view of a rail car graveyard. No injuries reported for this incident. It is common practice to utilize open areas for derailed eq... (more)

In the yard of the Progress Rail facility, we see several railroads paint schemes, along with locomotives in different phases of the rebuilding process.

This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)

Train 120 hustles by the Salt Plant at Nappan, Nova Scotia during sunrise.

As the sun sets across the valley, an east bound stack train takes a breather from climbing the grade outside of Abo Canyon.

Trans Pennine Express waits in the station York for departure.

Using reporting marks of subsidiary Georgetown Rail Equipment this maintenance of way train is heading into the “hollers”. Power car converted from a GP38. Last railfan trip before my bypass... (more)

Again, we find ourselves deep in the hollows of Bell County, Kentucky along The Straight Creek Branch. Seen here is the Vall Loadout which is a part of Straight Creek Mining. As the story goes lik... (more)

The local Wabash Railroad crew prepare to head north after picking up cars from the NKP on the New Haven xchange in Ft. Wayne, IN. FWRHS photo shoot.