An unfortunate yet spectacular scene along the Lehigh River this morning. NS 9891 is the other unit. At the moment the cause of the incident is still unknown. I had the morning to myself at the ho... (more)

UP 1124 leads the Kenton local past one of the many stripped and burnt cars which litter North Portland.

Is This The End? A line of retired NJ Transit ALP-44s sits in Port Morris awaiting an uncertain future. Over the years, these locomotives have fallen further into disrepair, being broken i... (more)

HRT 6525, a rail veteran for the B&O railroad, remains stationary beneath overgrown trees behind a pottery shop, in very rough shape.

Precision Scheduled Railroading at work. Union Pacific's Portland, OR to North Platte, NE manifest put 28 cars on the ground at approximately 1 AM MST on 12/5/2021, just outside Hammett, Idaho... (more)

Amtrak 305 hasn't pulled one of America's Passenger trains at 79 MPH in a long time, the unit along with 3 "heritage" cars has been getting a lot of use over the last 15 years training F... (more)

One of the more bizarre rail incidents I can recall in recent memory occurred in San Pedro yesterday when the PHL daytime Yang Ming Switcher engineer decided to intentionally ram his unit through ... (more)

Once a railroad town…
Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy div... (more)

Nothing has run on Tennessee Pass lately
Proof can be found looking down the main line just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio Grande route that Union Pacific stopped operating in ... (more)

At some point decades ago, an old E&LS coach (presumed - exact lineage not known) was left in Turner to be used, reportedly, as a local schoolhouse. But today, the town of Turner consists of one h... (more)

The glory days are now long gone! Once a busy yard under Canadian Pacific ownership and then under Quebec Central, the yard at Vallée-Jonction struggle to survive. There is plans to get the railr... (more)

The crew working Rio Grande's Tintic Local are helping rerail a runaway hopper loaded with dolomite in the far reaches of United States Steel's Keigley yard in Genola on June 18, 1976.

4 years after it nailed an 18 wheeler at a crossing, UP 8232 sits awaiting it's destruction, most likely...

A Conrail MoW gondola sits on the remains of the old Lehigh & Hudson River main. The L&HR railroad was a bridge line running northeast-southwest across northwestern New Jersey. This was the L&HR m... (more)

Three former Idaho Northern & Pacific GP40s await an unknown fate on the moribund Pacific Imperial Railroad after suffering a collision when they rolled unmanned into a bulkhead car. Their future ... (more)