After several weeks of rain and numerous slow orders in affect, NS 9513 crawls into Rials siding to meet the southbound City of New Orleans in the flooded Mississippi delta.

A quartet of former MARC engines sit in storage awaiting an uncertain fate. These engines were purchased by MPI many years ago and have been sitting long enough for moss to start growing on them. ... (more)

UP 2706 gets clearance to proceed up the steep grade to mescal as a huge winter storm hits Vail, they where running trains 1 at a time though the creek.

Our oldest daughter, Kira, exchanges waves with a female CSX Engineer on board the CN 5724 as CSX train K440-02 rolls south on the former L&N CC Subdivision in Rosedale, Kentucky, on an unseasonab... (more)

Boston based local BO-1 shoves their train East past the MBTA layover yard, Yard 14, outside of Boston Engine Terminal. Due to shrinking yards and trackspace in Boston proper, the crew had to wye ... (more)

Reminiscent of Soo Line's butt ugly MILW Bandits, this Progressive Rail Leasing unit was assigned to the CN local from Gladstone/Escanaba during our visit. I allowed myself only one picture series... (more)

Nancy Hanks and Trigger: NS 203, with the Central of Georgia heritage unit in the lead, crawls past a statue of Roy Rogers, his horse Trigger, saddle-maker John Johnson of the Bona Allen Co... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train begins its descent of Bozeman Pass on Montana Rail Link as it departs West End, Montana, on June 29, 2018.

BNSF’s Chewelah Turn trundles through Clayton, Washington, passing a couple of relics parked in a vacant lot along Railroad Avenue, including an old tow truck with a 1963 license plate, on Febru... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train passes Amtrak’s Winter Park Express ski train laying over in the siding at Fraser, Colorado, on February 8, 2019.

That's a New One

From my understanding of the resignaling project, SIP boxes are replacing intermediary signals on the Pittsburgh Line. But 216.3 (Union Furnace) was never a signal, ... (more)

188 exits Roderfield Tunnel and crosses one of the many bridges over the Tug Fork along the Pokey.

Between Little Tom Tunnel and Big Lawson Trestle along the former N&W Clinch Valley District, NS 789 crosses over the Buchanan Hollow crossing.

I believe this place is called Verdemont. The train had just received a new crew, here. Seen in October 2000.

Empty coal bucket 745 crosses Kennedy Trestle, one of the many curved trestles between Coeburn and St.Paul on the scenic Clinch Valley District.