In 1947, to help meet the demands of the post war coal boom, the Clinchfield purchased 6 used 4-6-6-4 Challenger-type locomotives from the Denver, Rio Grande, and Western. Despite being very big p... (more)

In a photo taken in 2007, an empty coal train passes by the remnants of a small derailment on the S-curved Crater Loops. Sources tell me that this was caused by a "stringlining" of the train whe... (more)

Santa Fe Railway's train 891, the Super C, heads eastward to Chicago as it crests Cajon Pass' Summit as it departs southern California on a snowy December 30, 1974. A quartet of SD45-2s, l... (more)

CSXT F90021 sits derailed leaving this mess.

It's a 300 mile round trip from 'Armitage Grange' to the SVR. I had previously 'recce'd' this wonderful location but it was the usual story, right place, right locomotive, wrong weather. In the ev... (more)

New York Central 1066, Norfolk Southern's eleventh heritage unit, greets the morning sunrise outside the shop in Muncie. For more information, visit more)

It's well after sunset the train will run all night working it's way to Marquette,IA and South to Savanna,IL and on to Chicago.

No, this is not Photoshop trickery. This is some creative light painting. With camera in Bulb I opened every car body door and painted the guts of the engine with a flash light. A technique I disc... (more)

ITSG2 strolls through Peck with a clear all the way into Proviso... what a surprise.

Just around the point from Celilo heading east along the Columbia River.

The westbound KVR train to Trail passes the Brilliant Dam on its way to Castlegar.

Northbound Empire Service train #259 passes a tugboat pushing an oil barge up the Hudson River.

Because of the derailment on the CSX New Castle Sub in Newton Falls, OH , CSX has been running detours on Wheeling and Lake Erie Trackage. Here, Q352 runs east to Connellsville to pick up on it'... (more)

This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)

About 75 miles east of Reno Nevada. The westbound California Zephyr was struck by a empty gravel semi. I ran to the front expecting to see damage to the unit. Not two superliners torn open with fi... (more)