Actual rails laid by the Missabe RR found on what remains of the DM&IR Woodbridge branch line located NE of Buhl, MN. The Missabe put this branch line in for the sole purpose to service a few nat... (more)

I've always said that rail fanning is 20 percent skill, 30 percent knowledge, and 50 percent luck. Well, today was nearly all luck. After having dinner in Peach Springs, my folks and I walked out ... (more)

This won't work. This block of limestone will need some readjustment before it can make its trip to Manitowoc for a breakwall in Lake Michigan. These blocks were not secured in any way due to the ... (more)

Well... I know this is vandalism, but whoever painted this has talent. They could definitely use their gift in other ways to express themselves but it is eye-catching. It had to take a long time ... (more)

On my way to work on November 18, 2009, the dispatcher calls to inform me I72 left a track indication between Attica and Marshfield. After obtaining Track Authority, I put my hyrail truck on the ... (more)

A "light engine" with 9 narrow gauge steam locomotives on the way back "Mont Blanc Hill" - St Valery.

Two old buses from Paris meet the German HSB 99 6001 on the occasion of the steam festival "Baie de Somme".

You'll be waiting a long time for this train... the abandoned Gary Union Station is left wide open and pretty much gutted, yet some enterprising soul left a chair in the waiting area.

Over the history of railroading, many lines have been abandoned, but few have been forced to do so because of nuclear contamination...

Yaniv railyard in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone has... (more)

A close-up photo of a cold weather rail joint pull apart or a break caused by a frost heave or some other cause. Found on what remains of the DM&IR Woodbridge branch line located NE of Buhl, MN. ... (more)

SY 1058 passes by, as several horses have their carts loaded with coal slurry at Chengzihe washery in 2002.

Just west of Phoenicia is one of the worst remaining washouts on the Catskill Mountain Railroad, one which severs the line from its western end and will require major funding initiatives to repair... (more)

One of the highlights of the Festival of Steam 2016 on the CFBS (Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme): a train of 9 narrow-gauge locomotives in the "Mont Blanc" hill! The first is the sma... (more)

The Newest Addition to the PIR's Collection of Moribund Rolling Stock - [Vernal Equinox 2016 +1 Series] - Congratulations are in order on a job well done for the Pacific Imperial Railroad'... (more)