The first time I have seen a train on this bridge and it was a winner! 5399 is painted in Black Widow colors and is ex-SP 4364.

It is not even officially winter and we have had several snow/ice storms staring in Nov 1. CMQR is the lead unit is this train hauling PanAm and NBS freight since PanAm and NBS do not exchange fr... (more)

A typical busy morning on the Fairfield Southern, as remote jobs do their work shoving iron ore pellets into the steel mill. While presently commonplace on any given morning, this scene (which is... (more)

Cemex's EMD SD60 hauls empties upgrade as it heads eastbound towards the Black Mountain Quarry.

Special operating to the Lobster Festival in Rockport

"Cutting Through Town"

Although the residents of Dover are no stranger to trains in their town as NJT's Morris and Essex line also runs through there, the M&E still requires a co... (more)

Two weeks after this photo was taken, the Mare Island Rail Service (a subsidiary of Tri-City & Olympia Railroad) ceased operations on Mare Island when their operating contract was cancelled. Show... (more)

Still bearing Sequatchie Valley reporting marks, this GP38 is now the only running power on the Walking Horse & Eastern. As best I can tell from internet research, this GP38 was originally PC 782... (more)

TR 7001 and 7002 tiptoe down a +-3% grade in some of the steepest parts of the "Gulch", to pickup the rest of their train. Former EMD Demonstrators 1211 and 1212, they are now wearing t... (more)

The South Shore heads west through East Chicago, bound for Peguiss Yard a few miles ahead.

Self propelled motorcar 316 was originally built in 1913 by St. Louis Car for the Southern Traction Company. This car is in operating condition and was resting outside Wisconsin Great Northern's d... (more)

One of only six surviving locomotives built by Lima-Hamilton, and the only one that has operated in at least the last decade (if not more), ex-Cincinnati Union Terminal No. 25 now makes its home o... (more)

A whitetail doe takes advantage of the train pausing to flag a road crossing by running across the Mineral Range tracks.

Patriot Railroad's Columbia & Cowlitz Railway Woods line, runs from Longview, Washington to Headquarters, Washington, where there is a county owned land fill that the railroad services. Here we s... (more)