It took 20 years, but I finally managed to see Trillium Railway heading up into St. Catharines. For years I thought the trackage in the city was abandoned, but thats not the case. And whats better... (more)

Mill 5 bound, the 1201 is blasting up the hill above Goldsborough Creek near the Carman road. Many of the logs were barnacle-coated from being in the seawater for a while.

Arcade, NY 7/20/2012 - Sometimes the simplest details of the railroad provide for an insiring image. With no trains to watch and a dreary rain falling over this classic shortline in western New Yo... (more)

Running toward Calera Avellaneda, the tracks run along the sidewalk.

Looking like a well-detailed scene from an ambitious model railroad, a pair of GP-60s skirts South Boulder Creek below my precarious vantage point. The two loaded coal hoppers were bad ordered and... (more)

Southern Indiana Railroad (SIND) S-2m No. 103 travels through a curve on the return trip to Sellersburg, Indiana, on August 10, 2012. These sharp curves nicely illustrate the interurban heritage o... (more)

KCS 4688 had enough this morning and its prime mover apparently decided to "run away". You could see the smoke from 10 miles away. KCPD and KCFD responded to KCS Knoche Yard this morning and watch... (more)

The morning fog accentuates the rough surface texture of rail.

Was it any crossties or was it the sod that held the gauge on MILW's Winifred branch near Suffolk when the local with eight 40-ft. box cars tenderly negotiated it at 10 mph? Remnants of old "rai... (more)

Oh the indignity. A former Water Level Route hack brings up the markers on a welded rail work train moving through the mountains of central PA on the former PRR Middle Division, just two years af... (more)

A lone SD60 leads a UP Roadrailer through Chicago's south suburbs. Tom Golden photo.

Just days after being unloaded off a ship from Europe at Houston, Southern Pacific's second generation German Krauss-Maffei diesel hydraulic 9005 is paired up with an F-7 at Eugene, Oregon roundho... (more)

Maybe where CSX got the idea? Power hungry D&H leased this RS-3. Note 1967 Ford Country Squire in background - as common as RS-3s back then.

Commuter RTA106 with some old coaches somewhere in Chicago

Rock Island F2 49 apparently had to have a face make-over once upon a time, and not having any extra headlights, the shop forces sheet-metaled over the nose. This is NOT a photoshopped exercise!... (more)