A westbound BNSF Office Car Special meets an eastbound BNSF grain train at Muir, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s main line over Bozeman Pass on October 7, 2023. This is a deadhead move west as c... (more)

1800 led a westbound train of storage flats to be placed in the passing siding at Old Fort. All of the cars would not fit so they continued west up the loops with the remaining cars for Asheville... (more)

The clean up Saturday morning after a loaded rock train southbound with UP power had an Oopsie daisy derailment Friday night.

After an unexpectedly lengthy 36 year stay on Beacon Island the two one of a kind NYCS Electric Locomotives have been moved off the site and are currently sitting on private property. They will be... (more)

NS 054 seen at Chattanooga , Tn heading to Knoxville , Tn with four Ferronor locomotives bound for Chile .

BNSF 1230 has seen better days as it rusts in the Texas sun back in August, 2017. Not sure if this diesel has been scrapped since then.

CofG E7(A) 801 with GP7 106 at Terminal Station, Atlanta, Georgia on October 19, 1961. Atlanta's Terminal Station served the Atlanta & West Point, Central of Georgia, Nashville, Chattanooga & S... (more)

SoPac is AOK. Although it has had a few owners since Southern Pacific, on August 12, 2021, LTEX 9362 (née-SP 9362, SD45T-2, EMD, 2/1975) looks a lot like it did when it was not wearing the... (more)

SP cab-forward 4119 leads The Owl, SP 2nd 26, at Los Angeles California on May 4th 1934. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Northern Pacific FP7 6510C leads train number 2 near Dickinson North Dakota in 1956. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Operation Lifesaver CSX 4568 waits for a crew to take its train south out of the yard in Augusta towards Savannah, and then on to Waycross, Georgia. Photo taken with permission.

“Five Day Work Week”
Four of the five F9PHs rostered by the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) are laying over for the weekend in the yard at Brunswick, late in the afterno... (more)

Rolling into the viewfinder!

One of 23 Santa Fe EMD GP60B 3800 hp (325-347) built in July 1991. The Santa Fe was the sole railroad to use this cabless GP60B model. ... (more)

UP's 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014 approaches the rules community of Hawk Springs during its "Home Run Express" tour.