Can it be seventeen years ago. I still think of these as new. They are not.

Eastbound BNSF Modesto to Streater "Wine Train" climbing the Tehachapi grade about to enter tunnel two above Caliente. The nickname is due to the large amount of wine from the Central Va... (more)

An Entertrainment dinner train prepares to depart Union Bridge station in the fall of 1994. The station was built in 1902 by the Western Maryland Railway.

Nebkota FP7 No. 54 coughs up a bit of black smoke while switching grain hoppers at Hemingford, Nebraska, on April 10, 1998. At the time, the elevator at Hemingford was leasing both Nebkota F units... (more)

An empty hopper train traverses the deep cut at EVE just west (railroad south) of Waynesburg. The train is destined to the Federal #2 facility for loading. Once loaded, it will become UEK-504.

R346 passes QN Tower in Washington D.C. in 1996.

CRANDIC job switching Cedar Rapids

"Buttheads" we call them. Considering Congress they don't need the insult. Switchers are passing from the scene slowly but surely so I try to get every one I can. This unit originally ca... (more)

A&C six day a week interchange train from Santa Fe in Phoenix was approaching Parker

Shunting locos 08884(left) and 08905 are seen in Bordesley yard in 1999. Cars from the Land Rover factory at Solihull are loaded onto trains here, for export. Note the 2 class 37 locos on a stone ... (more)

MGA 2305 leads an empty train headed by five Super 7s southbound on the Manor Branch (M8.1) a few miles northwest (railroad south) of Sycamore. The empty train is destined for loading at the massi... (more)

An eastbound coal drag slowly plunges into the darkness at the west portal of New Portage Tunnel.

A track inspection train headed south on the old Clinchfield.

An eastbound coal drag, UBT-146, destined to Baltimore, passes westbound OIPI-9 (Oak Island, NJ - Conway, PA) between Ardara and Larimer.

NS U47 backs across the high bridge on ex-IRR's rails at Ramsey as it shoves empties into Paramount Coal. The bridge crosses the Guest River, slightly visible in the lower right foreground, and th... (more)