One of the favorite activities during National Train Day at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum was supervised hand car and motor car rides. Here a pair of young lads zip a former Missabe hand car p... (more)

Five "retired" 4-axle GE's from the Union Pacific find themselves in Selkirk, NY on April 25. Not sure where they are going from here, but it looks like they came from an auction in the ... (more)

CP 8643 leads an empty grain train east in northwest Calgary. This train is on the mainline at Brickburn siding. The siding is out of commission at the moment. The flood of June 2013 caused a sink... (more)

A westbound BNSF grain train crosses Fish Creek Trestle at Rivulet, Montana, on May 15, 2013. This 576-foot trestle is officially known as MRL Bridge 165, and was used in a few key scenes in the S... (more)

It’s not a good sign when one is waiting for the next subject to enter his viewfinder and it turns out to be a derrick work train. That assuredly indicates the line is blocked with a derailme... (more)

The crew works late into the night to clear a derailment in the WSOR yard in Janesville out front of the roundhouse. The covered hopper is SOU 92397 and was loaded with sand.

Welcome aboard the CRH maglev train...Oh sorry, they are CRH380ALs with wheels moved away for maintenance.

One of the two Electro-Motive Division RS1325’s ever produced lies derailed in Pekin, Illinois on Friday, March 28, 2014. Illinois & Midland Railroad # 30, built in the fall of 1960 for Chicag... (more)

What you can't see in this shot is the wheel slip going on here as this little Trackmobile comes up on a switch covered in ice.

Inside the belly of the beast, the sound of an EMD 16-710G3 turbo charged prime mover idles away. Beside it, a tag used by mechanical personnel and locomotive engineers to advise others of mechani... (more)

A heavy wet snow has blanketed East River Mountain, leaving behind zero visibility, arctic cold temperatures, and quite a measurable snowfall for the late winter season. Over 14" of snow accumulat... (more)

Deer looking for spilled grain don't seem too nervous as snow dozer 940022 approaches. Heavy snow this year has been hard on both deer and railroads.

A southbound FEPASA freight train, duo of EMD SD39-2M D-2362 and D-2356 locomotives drag a train #50.083 Talcahuano - Mariquina, and crosses the "Colo" bridge near Victoria city. Pillars and the r... (more)

The 'long view' at Birkett Common is just as dramatic as the wider scene more commonly photographed. The characteristic and ancient dry stone (no mortar) walls are a particularly attractive featur... (more)

A 700 Series Tōkaidō Shinkansen glides through Hamamatsucho, a few kilometres south of Tokyo Station, just after dusk on Christmas Day.