Front Street Friends NS 4394 leads manifest 13R southbound onto the NS Lurgan Branch over the front street bridge in Harrisburg, as it meets northbound manifest 12Z.

NS C47 is seen loading coal at Amfire Mining Co. in Portage, PA. Only 6 cars remain before the 100+ car train is loaded and ready for the road. Powering today's train is 5 former Conrail SD80MACs,... (more)

Monument to an Idea. While running laps on the museum's loop track, Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 no. 20 passes behind the Dome Car Monument at the Colorado Railroad Museum. The monument wa... (more)

As the rain clouds move off to the east, NS 55K crosses over the Ft. Wayne Railroad Bridge which spans the Allegheny River. The bridge was originally built in 1904 by the American Bridge Company o... (more)

A westbound BNSF train crosses Lake Ashtabula as what has to be the largest garter snake I've ever seen gets some sun on a large chunk of granite nearby. I did a cursory search for "snake&quo... (more)

Some BNSF locomotives, including a rebuilt GP35 and a rebuilt GP30, are reflected in a puddle left by a recent rainstorm as they rest on one of the servicing tracks in Willmar, MN.

B779 with UP 7769 & UP 8413 takes its last glide into the sun before hanging left and heading eastward to Selkirk seen rolling up the Pattersonville trestle on a gorgeous May afternoon.

Just after sunset, CSX Transportation Dash 8-40CW 7680 and AC4400CW 134 lead an eastbound vehicle train along the banks of the Monongahela River on the CSX's Pittsburgh Sub. In the distance, just... (more)

The final 13Z heads south towards Roanoke with Conrail shoving hard on the rear.

Tulsa Twilight | On the warm and pleasant evening of Monday, May 28, 2024 - Memorial Day - a westbound manifest train is just about to complete its journey from Lincoln, NE as it approaches... (more)

A northbound NS stack train has added some accessories as it heads for Chattanooga. Yes I was shocked to see this as it came out from a tree tunnel where one had fallen on it a few hundred feet be... (more)

To the Rear. The 611 pulls around to the Roundhouse at the NC Transportation Museum as part of a September 2018 night session.

Huffing and Puffing. The 611 does a runby behind the NC Transportation Museum as part of a night shoot sponsored by the museum in September 2018.

A loaded ethanol train heads east through a summer storm behind a trio of power foreign to the CSX.

Rolling through Anacoco southbound