A historic 'final move' was made by Pan Am Southern on February 23, to retrieve the former Mt. Tom Power Plant ex-Boston & Maine SW-1 #1849, which was an 11th-hour save by the Berkshire Scenic Rai... (more)

In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Boeing-Vertol produced the US Standard Light Rail Vehicle. A total of 275 articulated railcars were sold to Boston’s MBTA and San Francisco’s MUNI. The... (more)

TH&B caboose no. 81 shows its Canadian Pacific influence as it is basically a modern CP caboose, sharing the same shade of yellow. It was parked at Hamilton yard along with a mix of TH&B and CP po... (more)

A pair of former DM&IR SD38-2s switch Proctor yard on a crisp -5F morning. The calm conditions have allowed a temperature inversion to trap steam from freshly baked taconite pellets close to the g... (more)

Built Like a Mack Truck

That phrase was very much a part of the fabric of Allentown, Pennsylvania, home of the world headquarters of Mack Trucks. Although I grew up about twenty mi... (more)

Cream with Orange and Chocolate

That pretty much describes an ice cream treat or the paint scheme of the Port Authority of Allegheny County’s two F7A’s that provided commuter s... (more)

Gold Country. With a fresh coat of gold paint, SERA #48 guides a special work train through the beautiful foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. This train is headed towards a brand new ... (more)

A passenger train comes into the yard on the old Keystone mainline in a light snowfall.

Union Pacific Steel Gang work train heads westbound after some track work in the Seacliff area of the Coast Route in Ventura County.

Meeting of UP trains at different level, near McArthur Bridge, at the entrance to a Union Pacific Lesperance Street yard in Saint Louis MO. A pleasure to see classic material, EMD GP38-2 No. 842 p... (more)

During the fall of 2017, Railbox 40188 went in to the TTX freight car shop in North Aiugusta, South Carolina, looking tattered in an old tagged Rbox scheme, but emerged as a rolling cancer awarene... (more)

It looks like an RS3-powered Amtrak train, but actually it's an empty equipment draft leaving Boston's South Station for the Southampton Street coach yard. Amtrak 106, assigned as the South Statio... (more)

BNSF 8086 is the rear DPU unit on an eastbound oil train slowing at Jennings, MT to meet a westbound Z-train. Jennings is the west end of a GN/BN line relocation that included construction of the ... (more)

CTA 95th year old Historical Cars made a rare run to celebrate the 125th Year Anniversary of the city's oldest elevated by carrying special guests to an affair at the Garfield station.

While this shot is about a mile from my home I have had a very difficult time adding it to my database of ARR images. First, we just don't run that many trains in the winter on the south end of th... (more)