Denver Rock Island Railroad NW2 No. 996 trundles eastbound down the former Rock Island main line into Denver, Colorado, as it approaches Silver Yard near the I-70 overpass on April 11, 2006.

Bighorn Divide & Wyoming Railroad EMD SD9 No. 2012 sits in Bonneville, Wyoming, on June 22, 2016, apparently in the middle of some radiator work.

Piedmont & Northern C420s 2000 and 2001 working at Spartanburg, SC with a set of Clinchfield EMDs waiting in the distance in this June 1969 scene.

The South Branch Valley started operations with at least one former Western Maryland caboose. Painted in SBVR’s version of WM’s speed lettering scheme, caboose 1892 is seen crossing the south ... (more)

The Chesapeake & Indiana heads south across the former NKP in Thomaston with a pair of former DMIR SD-M's for power.

Before the Potomac Eagle

When the State of West Virginia purchased the B&O line from Green Spring to Morefield, It found a pair of army surplus MRS1’s to power the South Branch ... (more)

GBW #320 switches the boat train in Kewaunee while the ferry Arthur Atkinson awaits an uncertain fate. Sadly, this area is all condos now.

An elder portion of downtown Anderson sits empty and dilapidated on a warm morning in late spring as the Pickens Railroad Belton job heads back east to Belton after interchanging with the Anderson... (more)

Pickens Railroad U18B's #9500 & #9502 bring the train from Gluck into Anderson where it will be interchanged with Norfolk Southern. The three man crew was friendly but focused on accomplishing the... (more)

Georgia Northeastern GP18 #8705 brings two covered hoppers up the grade leading into Tate,GA off the Marble Hill branch passing the old Georgia Marble handcar shed.

GBW 323 leads a short Boat Train into Kewaunee, WI on a nice Fall day in 1986. Hardly a trace of this line remains today.

Wearing its fourth paint scheme, Black River and Western RS3 1554 stands near the engine house in Ringoes, New Jersey. The Alco began life as Jersey Central 1554, wearing the CNJ’s green scheme ... (more)

The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina’s daily train passes a modest truck patch just beginning to sprout in this May, 1982 view.

Done with its work in Elizabethton, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina’s daily train is returning to the Clinchfield interchange in Johnson City.