Metroliner Conference Club Car 9800 is spotted in the station and ready for a charter run up the corridor as a VRE pulls out of town.

Climbing through Deen Tunnel on Tennessee Pass east of Pando, Colorado, on August 1, 1996 is a heavy Southern Pacific coal train. The 242-foot Deen Tunnel, sometimes also called Pando Tunnel, is s... (more)

Emerging from the (coal) mist! This rarely visible unit until recently served as a plant switcher for the Mirant Energy coal-fired power plant in Alexandria, VA. Usually hidden behind rows... (more)

A rare (1 of 4) N&W GP38-2 is leading this eastbound manifest through snow flurries on a bleak and blustery day.

573 is about to duck beneath the Lake Rockwell Road overpass with the Lackawanna heritage motor up front. The track off to the left is the former EB LE&P mainline track. The bridge abutments barel... (more)

A SD45 road slug set exits Montgomery Tunnel. The N&W operated two such SD45 sets which were typically assigned to coal service. The slug unit was built from a damaged SD35

The NS&T was the last survivor of Canada's true Interurban systems, and lasted until 1959 operating on the Niagara peninsula. This MOW car is a forerunner to today's snorkel apparatus used in ove... (more)

Rio Grande's Provo switcher retrieves an empty bulkhead flat from the Anderson Lumber spur along 6th South at 2nd West in Provo. When was the last time you witnessed a Dodge Aspen or a Plymouth Vo... (more)

The first scenes recorded outside the U.S. by John, on his first trip to Canada September 6-7, 1953, were at the NS&T yard which was a CN property.

LVRB is able to assemble a locomotive consist not seen often in 2013. An MP15DC-SW7-MP15DC consist drops a small amount of interchange traffic for NS (2 cars) and CP (3 cars) in the River Yard at... (more)

Homemade
Designed and built by the quality UP Employees at the railroad's DeSoto Shops in Missouri, the UP AutoFlex holds 15 patents and is the only auto rack that can be adjusted to t... (more)

The Rio Grande transported solid fuel rocket motors for Hercules at Baccus, Utah to military installations via refrigerated containers on 53 ft. flat cars. Car 80003B, part of an A-B articulated s... (more)

Milwaukee Road MILW 168, MILW 174, MILW 156, and lead locomotive SP 9177 have cut off from their Taylor to West Colton train, and are now proceeding down to the east end of the yard. At Pepper St... (more)

The Missabe's dock number one is quiet on this overcast Saturday morning as four cars of ore from the Auburn Mine wait to be dumped.

The always resourceful Rio Grande converted a group of sand hoppers to haul ballast in the late 1970s. Built in Feb. 1951, this remodeled car (with the original roof removed) awaits its next assig... (more)