On a cold fall morning, well before the sun has found the valley floor, the 473 sits outside the former DRGW station in Silverton. In an hour or so it would head a chartered mixed train back to D... (more)

Happy Halloween folks! :-)

UP 8813 West and company roar down the 2.65% grade of the #1 track through Newcastle with 12,321 tons of manifest from Roper, UT to Roseville, CA on the drawbars.

The World speed-record lok crosses the highest trestle along Semmeringbahn. The sun rose up to the perfect height, shooting trough the morning fog. Some said that a modern train is inappropriate o... (more)

In the dead of night an eastbound stack train waits on the bridge for a westbound freight to clear the main into Harrisburg.

A spider's web is cast under a sign advising passing motorists to watch for locomotives. Locomotives that last touched these rails five years ago at the East Broad Top Railroad.

A view from my seat in the rear of dome-observation car “Strathcona Park” on VIA Rail No. 5 between Red Pass and Swiftwater, British Columbia, reveals the tallest mountain in the Canadian Rock... (more)

The future looks a little like the past as visitors inspect the looming spectre of Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis steam locomotive No. 576. A little movie magic and imagination go a long way d... (more)

Norfolk Southern stack trains 20T passes NS 21T at Clymers, IN on the Wabash line during the late Fall afternoon of 10/09/16.

A plethora of historic equipment sits at the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati in Latonia, Kentucky. Among the collection is PRR Observation, the Metropolitan View (bottom right) and B&O "... (more)

NUMBERBOARD ANATOMY The interior look from inside the cab of the numberboard and headlight fixtures.

No. 26 being readied for it's debut after a very long rebuild April 27, 2016, Scranton PA.

The Australia Streamliners 2016 weekend's second night photo shoot gave me the opportunity to lens this image on Sunday night October 2, with several colorful cab reflecting in the special B-class... (more)