Two big Conrail locomotives sandwiched between Santa Fe SD45s help lift an eastbound pig train up the approach to the Loop.

A westbound SP vehicle train with a new caboose passes a slide fence at Floriston.

Extra 21 East has just emerged from Snoqualmie Tunnel at Hyak, summit of the Cascades (2562'). Note poor condition of the siding, still in daily use. That's the Hyak substation in the background, ... (more)

Westbound Train 201 ascends Boylston Hill at the east switch of Doris. The 16-mile, 2.2%, 2000-foot climb from the Columbia River is longest and steepest on the Milwaukee.

A heavy early morning fog is just lifting off the Flatiron rock formations at Plainview, Colorado, as Amtrak’s California Zephyr crosses the west switch at Plain and is about to enter Tunnel 2 a... (more)

A Soo Line northbound freight begins its descent of Byron Hill south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on a beautiful August 2, 1987. Bracketing two GP9s are a pair of GP30s.

UP's QRVWC heads south on the Palmdale Cutoff as BNSF 7910 works through Sullivan's Curve.

UP's Los Angeles to Denver intermodal rounds Sullivan's Curve as it works east up Cajon Pass.

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On March 5, 1977, Rio Grande's Bucyrus Derrick 027, a steam powered wrecker (based out of Roper Yard) was called to clean up a coal train derailment on the Union Pacific interchange track at Unive... (more)

CP 8945 crossed the 904 foot Canadian Pacific Camden Place Rail Bridge. This bridge is the official end of the navigable channel for river traffic. It was built in 1905 by the Minneapolis, St. Pau... (more)

Hitting a trifecta on my first attempt at catching any of the NS heritage units.

The 17h train from Marrakech to Fès in the typical Maroccan landscape with a japanese engine E 1250 from Hitachi.