Walking on water: Wielding a "calibrated ballast density meter," fellow RP contributor Bob Harbison inspects the... (more)

DM&E's 170 train from St Paul to KC wades through the rising floodwaters in downtown Davenport. This would be one of the last trains through town before the railroad was shut down in the evening ... (more)

The most significant remaining aftermath of a sideswipe derailment lays like a beached whale on the sands of the Puget Sound, while a Coast Guard cutter patrols the area and a work train begins la... (more)

C&O NW2 No. 5068 was going about the business of loading C&O car ferry "City of Midland 41" at Ludington, MI June 16, 1981. I remember being amazed at just how much the ship would lean to one sid... (more)

CPR GP9 8700 is loading the barge with carloads of lumber on Slocan Lake, after which the Iris G will take the barge and its load to Slocan City at the south end of the lake for connection to the ... (more)

It's Alive! Looking a bit like something out of a sci-fi movie, Nevada Northern's 100-Ton Wrecking Crane A swings into action at the site of a minor yard derailment, during the 2010 Winter ... (more)

A location I have wanted to take for a long time the opportunity came on 10 July 2010 with the running of the Heart of Wales charter. The scene captures industrial dereliction with the Lightship w... (more)

GP9 8808 wades in Slocan Lake as it adjusts the barge slip by poling it. The train,Loco 1 car and caboose will eventually load onto the barge and travel 30 miles up Slocan Lake to Rosebery to serv... (more)

Workers ease a heavy component onto a 16-axle depressed center flat car at the Port of Duluth. The car is expected to a take a CP/DME routing to South Dakota this week as a special move.

Bicentennial GG1! Our country's bicentennial was celebrated in many ways including railroad locomotives of all types painted red, white and blue. This GG1 was one of the more gaudy locomotives p... (more)

A CSX detour due to track work on the LCL Sub is crossing the Ohio River near Clagg Tower on the LIRC. The train detoured over the LIRC from Seymour, IN, to Louisville, KY. Here the train is about... (more)

Two years ago on June 12th, floods hit Iowa hard. Here, 10 days after the crest of the Mississippi, Burling... (more)

This time, it wasn't JUST for the cameras. With his assistant carefully watching the alignment, Nevada Northern's Wreckmaster signals his crane operator to slowly lower a derailed hopper ... (more)

Two Pickens Railroad Baby Boat U18B's sit in the small yard in Gluck, SC