Hot Rail! Movie stunt train once belonging to the Santa Clarita Railroad (SCRX) performing a stunt with a Pontiac Firebird. Note part of vehicle firewall on right side of the locomotive.

A Union Pacific Operation Lifesaver Special heads through Price River Canyon along a D&RGW icon in it's own right, Castle Gate. The Rio Grande utilized this rugged rock monument for promotional ph... (more)

A busy evening at CN's Dock 6 in Duluth as the afternoon roadswitch job doubles its empty ore train together for a trip back to Proctor. Note a BNSF coal train unloading across the bay.

Home Sweet Home for a hardcore railfan. A private drive with a flatcar frame bridge leads to a home nestled in the pine forest at 7,000 feet just steps from the Moffat Route. A lead UP flag unit i... (more)

Looking more like a model locomotive, the last operating Union Pacific Centennial DD40X, UP 6936 East, is seen in a pan shot from an ice covered farm road just east of Round Grove, Illinois on Feb... (more)

In 1958 Athearn introduced an HO gauge flat car that included a scale cabin cruiser for uses as a boat load. Eight years later I discovered an exact duplicate of the Athearn boat and flat car mod... (more)

The flanger works Eastbound on the #1 track.

Chessie's Car Float connected Newport News to Norfolk. The ex B&O tug (from New York City service, built in Camden, NJ in 1952-1953) was lashed to the side of the float and provided motive power. ... (more)

A meet of epic proportions! BNSF 5427 meets UP 844 and SP 4449 with the steam spectacular. And yes, the rumors are true, I did use a step ladder to take this picture. Almost got blown over in th... (more)

This was the first time that the Rio Grande heritage unit led the Ski Train. Wind chill was well below zero, with high winds and fresh snow.

Among my oldest slides, this Anscochrome was faded but brought back to some semblance of life by Photoshop. A Santa Fe tug and barge pick up the Santa Fe's share of the NWP's interchange traffic ... (more)

Stacked train?

An insider photograph of the shocking aftermath of the tragic runaway of a overloaded SP potash train "01-MJLBP-11" after it lost it's brakes off Cajon Pass and careened off a curve at over 100mph... (more)

OC put on a spectacular show of steam running both GTW #6325 and former Canadian Pacific G-5 #1293 side by side on it's former PRR lines through Ohio.

The coal fired, steam powered, car ferry Chief Wawatam is being loaded by Soo Line GP-30 708 at the St. Ignace dock in June of 1979.