Downtown Sylva rarely sees rail traffic these days. Blue Ridge Southern's westernmost regular customer is at MP 43, east of town, and Great Smoky Mtns RR operations are from Dillsboro west. That... (more)

Great Smoky Mountains GP38-3, disguised as a GP35, makes a striking blue appearance trailing behind BLU's much larger GP39-2s.

THE BEST FRIEND. This little guy is everything to me. He's one of the best railfanning buddies a guy can have. He's enjoying the sun while I shoot BLU with Great Smoky Mountains 1009, a new acquis... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson westbound, led by D&H GP39-2 7605 - N&W GP9 635 - N&W GP9 940 - RS11 5002, climbs Belden Hill at the Depot Hill Road crossing in Port Crane, NY. R.T. Steinbrenner Photo

A LIRC local job races south for its home in Jeffersonville.

The BNSF 817 local headed westbound out of town.

It is late in the afternoon as storm clouds move in and BNSF 2700 (GP39-2) leads the Buck Local with a load of wood to Lafayette, Colorado.

GP39-2 2948 departs from Vancouver Yard and pushes east on the Fallbridge Sub.

The night shift begins at Rice's Point.

The Willamette & Pacific yard crew is setting up the day's train to Toledo. After they add the caboose to the rear, the power will be added to the head end of the train.

A northbound Delaware and Hudson train blasts out the north end of the Belden Tunnel in July 1987. The lead engine was ex-Reading 3412, and despite having been owned by the D&H for over a decade, ... (more)

The first snow of 2020 left a lot to be desired. This was one of the few spots along T59 route between Canton and Waynesville that really painted a winter day's vibe. The crew has just got moving ... (more)

I've been really wanting to get some shots of the Eastern Idaho in action. I ended up in American Fall with a UP train Saturday morning. I decided to drive another 40 miles in hopes the Eastern Id... (more)

Union Pacific has delivered a monstrous train to the Eastern Idaho Railroad in Rupert. To give you an idea, UP brought the cars in with six locomotives from the main line at Minidoka, Idaho down t... (more)