During two weekends this winter, one in January and one in February Wiscasset Waterville & Farmington Railway in Alna, Maine ran "Steam and Sleighs" events. Passengers boarded the train at Sheepsc... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway locomotive 93 and 40 at the end of another long day rest in the confines of the warm engine house thanks to the efforts of crew members Con and Lennox. Steve Crise Photo ©... (more)

ALCO powered 16666 and its engineer wait patiently under the Goan sun for EMD powered 40115 to clear the single line with the Jan Shatabdi express from Mumbai.

Welcome Back- For the first time since 1966, the wheels of Nickel Plate S-2 #757 roll along rails of its home state, moving north on the Norfolk Southern Youngstown Line. Mechanica... (more)

After unloading passengers, Master Mechanic Bill Purdie looks for the conductor's signal to move the train.

An NS local seesaws out of the yard in Canton at CP Fairhope on the Fort Wayne Line. It was nice seeing a caboose/shoving platform in action with classic PRR signals. The crew on the local was in ... (more)

Lunch pail in hand, an employee at Conrail’s Enola Yard walks toward the servicing area to report for his second-trick duties. A co-worker has already claimed a parking spot closer to the shops... (more)

Nevada Northern Railway’night photo shoot featured locomotive 93 and rotary snow plow B in the East Ely yard on February 9, 2019. Steve Crise Photo © 2019 (file # SJC_NNRY_0278481)

Field a small town in British Columbia is a CP crew change point on the Loggan Sub. On Feb 4th, 2019 3 crew members lost their lives when their train derailed near Field. I would like to dedicat... (more)

The trainmen are riding the rear platform of an ex-Pennsy SW9 built in April, 1953 (PRR 8542) as it rumbles past the old REA express platform and CORK tower. (CORK took its name from the Armstron... (more)

GP9 72 and GP7 10 head a Mattawamkeag - Bangor freight.

Just Another Day on the Job

Engineer Stephen Lane goes about the un-glamorous, but vital, task of oiling about his charge ahead of a day hosting patrons of a DC Chapter NRHS charter ... (more)

On the Brush Sub, BNSF GP40-M No. 3020 and Santa Fe B40-8W switch empty tanks at Suncor Energy.

On a beautiful evening in Healdsburg, CA, an NWP engineer chats with a gentleman who likely rode aboard today's NWP Daylight. The train left here in the morning, traveled north to Willits, and ret... (more)