The terminal at Wernigerode is a delight. Engines are everywhere and there is plenty of activity.

CP 8726 leads a westbound UP grain train into Dover, ID on the former GN mainline. The train will exit the GN line and resume travel on the former Spokane International at Dover.

The Mattawamkeag - Waterville road freight is running through the small portion of signaled territory just a few miles from Waterville.

A trio of widecab GP40-2s are in charge of MAWA as it closes in on its destination of Waterville.

A Rare Bird Around These Parts Leaning into the curve on main 2 track through Aetna Hollow in the mountain community of Whiteside, TN, Haulage right CSX Z345-07 (NS 117) slowly ea... (more)

DL PT97 makes its way along the Delaware River with cars for Harvest Mills in Mt. Pocono.

Four DL Alcos pass the Portland station and are about to make their pickup from the NS.

Inbound PORU spends the morning switching around the yard at Rumford gathering up cars for the outbound in the afternoon.

An eastbound TV (trailer/van) train passes under the signal bridge at Ardara, Pa.

Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #382 (Strasburg's Rail Road ex-N&W #475) pauses at night on the bridge near Leaman Place. A great Lerro Productions charter.

In the late afternoon sunlight, an eastbound BNSF stack train with two NS units in the consist can be seen through the trees as the train slowly rolls up the grade towards Williams Junction and ev... (more)

Goodbye, Mel
Railroading and I lost a friend last week. Mel Baughman was born in Rifle, Colorado, on November 2, 1948, and began working for the Rio Grande in 1967, subsequently becoming... (more)

Bruce Mowbray is hard at work inside the Steamtown roundhouse preparing 0-6-0 No. 26 for the day.

Swiss steam at its best! We celebrate this year the 100th anniversary of the beautiful four-cylinder compound 2-10-0 steam locomotive "Elephant" C 5/6 #2978 from SBB Historic. It is see... (more)

Pipeline in the morning
Fog rolling off the Clark Fork dissipates into the warmth of a rising sun and swirls around Montana Rail Link’s westbound day gas local arriving at Pipeline at ... (more)