Western Forest Products SW1200 #302 leads the afternoon Beaver Cover train over East Fork trestle on Vancouver Island. WFP's Englewood Railway remains the last logging railroad in North America.

3078 and horse head slug friends 924 and 929 act as pushers bringing up the rear end of a ballast train.

At one of the crossing loops en route on the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver to Kamloops, we crossed a loaded CN grain train led by 2444 and another CN locomotive that I have not got notes of. Th... (more)

First day operating with new paint scheme. Returning to Lansdale, Pa from the ESPN interchange at Telford, Pa. This was one the Reading Company's Bethlehem Branch.

Bringing up the rear of a southbound Union Railroad loaded ore train is URR caboose number 101 at milepost 2 along the North Bessemer Branch in Penn Hills, PA.

Norfolk Southern AC44C6M's 4002 and 4004 pose side by side at Juniata Shop in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Photo by Casey Thomason. For more information about Norfolk Southern, visit more)

Bloody Nose and Kodachrome

A pair of EMD SW1500s trundle through Dolores Yard in Carson, California, on November 3, 1986. Besides the obvious difference in paint schemes (2575 is on... (more)

Rock on! WC is heading to Manitowoc, WI with numerous loads of limestone to be used in a breakwall in Lake Michigan. Only gravity was used to secure these loads as the speed on this line was extre... (more)

Mine run U01 is feet away from entering the control point at Marrowbone Junction passing an abandoned N&W boxcar as they finish their journey on the Lenore Branch. The rails the train are current... (more)

Not your Father's Scale Test Car
Wearing the eye catching orange paint typically found in MoW cars, this former Pullman Standard 4 bay covered hopper has been reclassified to another ... (more)

Taconite pellets are not the only thing that steam in the winter as these gondolas full of hot metal shavings show in March of 2014. The Gons are in a scrapyard in Racine, one of the few industrie... (more)

Portrait of a dinkie. In November, 1958, 0-4-0T number 13, a 1929 product of Davenport Locomotive Works, was shepherding cars of sugar beets at Great Western Sugar Company’s Loveland plant, its ... (more)

On June 27, 1979, Rio Grande's Tintic Local is pictured less than a mile from the Burgin gold mine, navigating desolate sage brush and cedar trees through the foothills of the East Tintic Mountain... (more)

A hospital train brings re-railed cars back to Butler Yard after a derailment. I'm surprised they didn't remove all the boxes from the Conrail van before they moved it.

Rocky Mountaineer's 2016 "Rainforest to Goldrush" consist idles in the south yard at Jasper waiting for the first departure of the season which took place on May 4th. This luxury trip ru... (more)