As a huge coal train is entirely over the top of the grade its large helper set is still attached, which is somewhat unusual. Looks like the conductor is stepping down with his grip. As the coal... (more)

Sometime in the late 1960s a couple of units in the original "Southern Belle" scheme share duties. KCS 25 was a "rebuild" of an E6A which had apparently been wrecked. As I un... (more)

Santa Fe’s 103 train, a freight operating from Chicago to Kansas City, departs Corwith Yard and begins its trip west as it approaches Pulaski Road overpass on March 4, 1990.

Amtrak Hiawatha train #334 with the Veterans NPCU passes UP's Jones Island LUB52 local in the Harbor View neighborhood on the south side of Milwaukee.

CN's Executive Office Train disembarked its passengers at Montreal's Gare Centrale and is now heading empty to CN's Taschereau yard for the night, passing VIA's 909 pushing a set of LRC cars into ... (more)

UP Y729 running as Metra extra 5901 departs CPT with the 553 headed to Elburn for storage.

A quartet of Union Railroad MP15's pull up the grade and around the wye leading off the of Duquesne Branch in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. The Job 66 crew has a train of empty CSX coke hoppers in tow w... (more)

NS leads a BNSF Manifest from Houston, Tx to Tulsa, Ok with a wide load in the consist through the new track layout at Saginaw, Tx. One can spot a railfan on the bottom right of the frame filming ... (more)

Here's how Saginaw layout now looks after the diamonds have been removed in favor of the switches. Also featured here are the first 4 of the 8 units of Stadler FLIRT (Fast Light Intercity and Regi... (more)

A Norfolk Southern Job? Not at all! Conrail Shared Assets Job RR32 makes their way around Belanger on the Conrail Marsh Track with Coils for USS Steel on Thursday August 3, 2023.

Re-routed High Priority Manifest from Houston, Tx to Tulsa, Tx at South Irving. This train has been re-routed through the DFW and the Madill sub due to track remodeling work at Saginaw. The plant ... (more)

Saginaw interlocker upgrades seen in the picture as part of the diamond removal at Saginaw, Tx while a manifest from Cadet Yard, San Antonio, Tx to Galesburg, IL gets on the Fort Worth Sub at Sagi... (more)

Coal drag from Eagle Butte Mine, Wy to Fayette Power Plant, Tx passes through the diamonds at Saginaw, Tx at restricted speed. This would be one of the last few trains that would pass through thes... (more)

A serendipitous sliver of sunshine illuminates three BNSF coal trains at Converse Junction, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2022. Out on the four-track main line is a coal load that is about... (more)

Rolling out of Union Station, two bald PRR E8s 4255 and 4297 leading train 22 the Manhattan Limited on its journey to New York on June 19, 1968. Photo by photographer's name not listed, from my... (more)