On its last day prior to going in for its 1,472 day inspection, Southern California Railway Museum's Prairie locomotive VC #2 pauses for a moment near one of the museum's many operating wig wags.

Perhaps the loneliest line in the land, BNSF's route via Raton Pass has been forsaken but for Amtrak's daily train. At the time of this photo, however, the route also carried a daily manifest betw... (more)

Southbound tonnage emerges from Delaware & Hudson’s Belden Hill Tunnel at Tunnel, New York. Four GP39-2’s have matters well in hand.

An eastbound Chicago Central & Pacific coal train rumbles through Joliet, Illinois, on February 22, 1989. CC&P was formed on August 27, 1986, to operate Illinois Central’s Chicago to Omaha, Nebr... (more)

Lake State Railway train Z127 has a pair of SD50s for power as they haul a short string of autoracks past the searchlight signal at South Clyde.

An eastbound extra Harbor stack approaches the Salton Sea as they pass the searchlights at Mortmar.

The Pasadena Local heads towards Irwindale with a couple warbonnet GP60Ms as they pass under the Santa Fe cantilever.

MTA LIRR Train 6470 with Bombardier M7 7020 passes the Rail Train near Bayside, New York on Saturday, May 22, 2021. The rail train was dropping welded rail between Little Neck and Bayside as part ... (more)

Just on the Illinois side of the IL/IN border, rests the quiet town of Sheldon. This evening, the silence is broken by TPWs Indiana Job coasting towards the interlocking diamond with KBS.

The Saturday Rock Job passes South Castroville with a couple endangered pieces of SP-era railroading on full display in the form of the SSW GP60 and searchlight signals.

Stormy Searchlight Sunset- One of the last installations of searchlight signals on the Union Pacific system stands guard over Hermosa, lit for oncoming traffic.

A pair of CN 60s gun it up the hill at Brunette, with a transfer for Lynn Creek.

Amtrak train #3 flies down the former Santa Fe towards Albuquerque, NM. Seen here passing history on a pole, the Southwest Chief doesn't mess around. Also note, the westbound semaphore for the mai... (more)

Cutting through an icy dawn
It’s early morning on a cold January 30, 2005, as an eastbound Union Pacific coal train descends the grade of the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision mainline in free... (more)

CSX #3232 leads a westbound empty coal hopper train through Thurmond, WV on the spring morning of May 18, 2021. The town was founded by W.D. Thurmond in 1873 when the former Civil War Confederate ... (more)