2206 and 1802 drift downgrade at Faukland Road approaching Wilsmere yard to drop off their freight, and pick up another to head back north.

The sun burns through a snow shower as power for the MRF drifts back to the mainline at Wales after having delivered three covered hoppers of bentonite to Northshore Mining.

Pickens 9507, a U18B, burbles south just outside Anderson, South Carolina. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

MRL's Laurel-Missoula manifest eases down the west side of Boseman Pass with a fairly clean SD45-2 leading.

The Western Allegheny RR daily train from Kaylor to Queen Junction and return has just gone on duty at Kaylor and is working its first siding, Blue Row Tipple, just west of town. Two F7s, led by ... (more)

Boise Valley Railroad 3525 is seen at Nampa, Idaho having arrived from Boise on the former UP branch - 15/09/2010

Backing up the CP to take cars to the North Shore interchange track. Nice to see a rare appearance of this engine this far south.

I chased the BUSW back west thinking she'd be struggling with the loading. Here the ''non-wavers'' crew is passing what is left of the depot in Depue. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

The conductor on a late running BICB-03 (IAIS 501) walks up to the next switch so the train can pull into the yard at Silvis while CBBI-03 (IAIS 504) pulls down the mainline in a light snow.

the excellent junction of EJ&E, EL, GTW, C&O and PC at Griffith, IN was a great place to visit in '72 as a westbound EJ&E train curves into town from the north headed toward Joliet, IL

GEVO 500 leads the Cedar Rapids turn past the former Rock Island Depot in Iowa City.

A very late FEC 210 rolls through Bunnell on a "cold" day for Florida where highs only reached 50. 210 was running about 4 hours late due to the train being involved in striking a trespasser in Me... (more)

Rolling East with just a little snow and a light train.

B&LE 406 moves a cut of hoppers in their Conneaut, Ohio yard on a sunny day in 1968. Now a days it's hard to imagine a time like this when permission to be on the property was readily given, but t... (more)

New England Central Railroad's first rail train to St. Albans was emptied of the nearly 7 miles (one 1,650 strand remained on the train) of 132 RE continuous welded rail and is now on the way back... (more)