Sure, the cable cars are cliches, especially when laden with tourists to the point where no one else can ride them. But here, in the quiet early hours, with a shaft of morning light illuminating ... (more)

Three high-hood Geeps, one a "torpedo boat" with air reservoirs topside, power train 555 northward across the Trading Cove trestle from Uncasville into Norwich just before 7:00 PM. Today the firs... (more)

At 6:00 PM on December 26th, Amtrak posted an alert on its website that all Boston-New York rail service had been cancelled due to the blizzard pounding the Northeast. Earlier that day, though, t... (more)

Train wrecks seem to be popular on RP. How about a train wreck of a color scheme? Amtrak was still in its relative infancy when its classic RDCs and GG1s were subjected to cruel and unusual pigm... (more)

Today's pop quiz: What VIA train is this? Well, before there was a Rocky Mountaineer, today's private-operator luxury cruise train, VIA ran its own version, called Rockies By Daylight, establishi... (more)

DRGW 5389 leads a trio of SDs and a load of coal eastbound near Yampa on the Craig branch.

Eastbound freight 150, its caboose marred with graffiti, skims the outskirts of Leadville on its way to Pueblo. The closure of the Tennessee Pass line was only a few years in the future; this wou... (more)

On its first excursion weekend after restoration, the 611 leads her eastbound train upgrade a few miles out of Roanoke. (I would appreciate a more exact location from anyone familiar with the area... (more)

A westbound comes down the south track into Seligman, eclipsing the just-risen sun.

Not a race--two eastbound intermodal trains wait out a traffic jam just west of Winslow. The SD75M wears "Santa Fe" on its nose, but "BNSF" on its flanks--the last roundup for newly painted warbo... (more)

With little to show for an all day chase, I hiked in over a mile to this spot on the old Boston & Albany for a final attempt, hoping the S-curve and rock cut in the approach shot would pay off. B... (more)

P&W NR-2 runs southbound along the Thames River on the ex-NH line from Groton to Worcester. Not crazy about short nose Geeps running long hood forward, but I couldn't pass up the still water and ... (more)

The shop building (now gone), and perhaps the rails, date to the days of the New Haven Railroad. And while the unit is of the era as well, the NH owned FL9s, not F7s. Rather, the NH-painted 6691 ... (more)

Back when it was Metro North Commuter Railroad, a pair of its FL9s, 2010 and 2013, lead train 860 north on the causeway just north of the Peekskill station a few minutes before 1 pm. The backlit,... (more)

Shatner on the Shore Line. Much of the filming for the 1979 ABC-TV movie 'Disaster on the Coastliner', set in California, actually took place in Southeastern Connecticut. Here, a disgruntled eng... (more)