A cold day on the SNC southend as the day starts off with a alot of switching in Saratoga as the SNC 8524 gets permission from the CP dispatch to be lined to the Adirondack Branch seen here with G... (more)

Has left Ann Arbor Ferry yard. AA RS 1 # 21 has crossed the diamond and is now backing up and getting onto the old abandoned EX NYC Ypsilanti branch here at Pittsfield Jct. The former depot sa... (more)

A lone GP40 pulls a sugar cane load over the Miami Canal on it's way to the US Sugar Corp. processing plant at Clewiston.

In the sunset, CFS 1828 South pass beside the ex-QCR engines at Scott, QC with 2 cars. The ex-QCR engines are QCR GG3, QCR SG2, and QCR RG5. And, in front of the CFS 1828, you can see Dannick Four... (more)

Nothing beats a Hartwell Railway consist. From all my years of railfaning, Hartwell has always presented amazing locomotive lash-ups. On a quiet January night, a power set is seen tied down just o... (more)

BG&CM #2404 resting at Spaulding, Idaho || August 2014

One crew member waits in SW1 15, while his colleague uses Alco 18 to shove cars into one leg of the Union pacific wye. A third crew member is getting cars on the other leg of the wye (dropped ear... (more)

A view from a time before the BB operated a LOT less trackage than they do now. In just a few years, the BB would go from a sleepy branchline operator to the largest shortline operator in Virgini... (more)

A pair of ALCOs were working the South Buffalo yard in Buffalo

In pre-G&W days, the homebound leg of LR&W's Little Rock turn climbs out of the Arkansas River valley behind a C420/geep combo.

My favorite shortline I never saw. This photo by Roger A. Rasor was used on Erie Western's 1979 calendar. I found one at a swap meet years ago, had it framed and it's been on my wall since. Pho... (more)

With the morning rain gone and the clouds breaking for the afternoon, Black River EMD SW-1500 #1539 is seen resting for the weekend next to the hundreds of thousands of tons of coal at Newport New... (more)

While a thunderstorm builds overhead, CIND 2002 and the Owens Corning Trackmobile take a breather outside the plant while the crew of the I&O Brookville Local grabs a switch list and chats with so... (more)

Arkansas and Missouri's original owners, the Hannolds, were very receptive to rail photography - so much so that they sponsored several invitation-only photographer specials. My friend Rich Jahn w... (more)

The Shannopin mine railroad: A trip to photograph the Monongahela Railway yielded a day with the usually-busy Waynesburg Southern side of the MGA dead due to scheduled track work. The only activi... (more)