NSCX 12 is seen waiting in the distance as a worker waters down a switch.

The Coahuila y Zacatecas was a Mexican narrow gauge (3-foot) short line that served a large copper mine and smelter at Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas. Its main line stretched 78 miles from a connec... (more)

On June 28, 1998, Amtrak No. 5, the California Zephyr is at Clay, Colorado. This train is running 10 hours late, and is entering Clay siding to meet Amtrak No. 6! General Electric-powered by two G... (more)

The Coahuila y Zacatecas was a Mexican narrow gauge (3-foot) short line that served a large copper mine and smelter at Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas. Its main line stretched 78 miles from a connec... (more)

Down-on shot of an SD40-2's K5 horn. The 40 was working the Queensgate hump.

Southern Pacific 9177 leads Milwaukee Road SD40-2s MILW 156, MILW 174 and MILW 168 through Sullivan's Curve on Cajon Pass.

Almost back to home rails at CN Lang Yard what will become CN 382 to Toronto has run up the terminal from CSX Stanley yard where it originated. The Maumee river which it is crossing over can be s... (more)

Can you believe it? This 144-year-old locomotive is on outdoor display at the Michigan Iron Industry Museum, located at the site of the Jackson Iron Company mine in Negaunee. The "Yankee" was bu... (more)

The NdeM was still paying employees at outlying points by pay car in 1962. In this photo, pay car 2187 is coupled to the rear of Train No. 4, which was a secondary train from Laredo to Mexico City... (more)

Hybrid train Serie 730 (works in diesel mode or in electric mode) photographed during a test in Matapozuelos.

A manifest from Northtown Yard to Dore, ND, heads south over the old Snowden lift bridge on the former Yellowstone Valley Railroad. The lead unit looks a bit different from when I last saw it.

Another inbound run on an already muggy, Philly style morning. At the time, 203 was among the few Bullets, which had yet to surrender their original square corner wind shields, in favor of the mor... (more)

Hauling limestone to the Minntac mine in ore cars is not an everyday thing but when the usual to this job former Minntacand then Missabe side dump cars are in the shops for rebuilding CN makes due... (more)

Wow, a sunny April day in Oregon?? Grab the camera. Forty-four miles south of Portland, the 2nd section of scheduled Train 665 is considered "westbound" on SP at Brooks, Oregon headed for Eugen... (more)

Two Mitsubishi-built diesels -- 1013 and 1021-- of the Empresa Ferroviaria Andena S.A., FCA, have a heavy ore train under control at Avaroa, Bolivia en route to Chile for export, two containers pe... (more)