As an autorack train shoved into IHB's Blue Island Yard, it didn't take long for me to notice it was no ordinary autorack. Included in the train consist was CRGX 1528, a former ATSF Alco S4. Built... (more)

Foliage is at or near peak this weekend in the White Mountains as the Conway Scenic Railroad Notch train heads west over the Frankenstein Trestle in Hart's Location, New Hampshire, with Boston & M... (more)

On a misty early spring day, a pair of Reading Century 424s lead an eastbound piggyback train along the freight line parallel to the Schuylkill Expressway on the outskirts of Philadelphia. I think... (more)

On June 9, 1966, the westbound train 19 "The Chief" arrives at Trinidad, Colorado behind F7A #21, F7A #327 and three F7B's. Photo from my collection. Photographer K. Crist.

Oh no, stop, end of track ahead! Actually, not to worry; this set of new Rio Tinto ES44ACi locomotives are undergoing validation tests on the GE-FW test track at Justin, TX, and have just reverse... (more)

NS AC44C6M, a brand new rebuild, has emerged from the Juniata Shops in Altoona, shining in a fresh coat of paint. Meanwhile, another rebuild awaits paint and will become NS 4099. In the foreground... (more)

As a passing thunderstorm drops rain outside across the Orange Empire Railroad Museum's (OERM) grounds, nice and dry inside a true gem of the Santa Fe Railway glistens as it awaits the final touch... (more)

In a not very common move, CN 527 is heading into the Port of Montreal light power with CN 2941 & CN 2609. It will pick up cars to bring to Taschereau yard and combine it with the rest of its trai... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound "California Zephyr" pops out of Tunnel 1 in Coal Creek Canyon as it descends down the 2-percent grade towards Denver, on September 29, 2018.

Seminole Gulf's Sarasota Switcher finds it's way southward on the overgrown right of way after an interchange with CSX. A headlight from a CSX motor can be seen in the distance.

K27 at Windy Point

Wash me! FRVR 4304 and 2 of its mates are in desperate need of a bath as they make a pick-up in CNW's Butler, WI yard in July of 1989.

A pair of departing FL-9s are nose to nose in New Haven under wire for perhaps the final time on the early morning of Friday, September 28, 2018. The remaining six CDOT FL9s were recently sold at ... (more)

Over one hundred cars of Kentucky black diamonds move at a mere crawl as the two GE's up front and pusher on the rear give it all they've got get their train over the misty mountain at Chaska, Ten... (more)

Pulling an MLW for a good cause. To raise money for the Special Olympics, CN helped organize the 'steel challenge' at Exporail today, where teams of twenty people competed to see who could ... (more)