An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.

CSX 6156 leading L133 returning back south through Alexandria after picking up a gondola car loaded with rail segments from the RO siding.

Long live the Warbonnet! BNSF 704 (Dash9) pulls up for service at the engine facility in Denver, Colorado.

UP 8714 (SD70ACe) exits the Hermosa Tunnels hauling a heavy transformer towards Laramie, Wyoming.

The California Zephyr 5 train runs through Keenesburg, Colorado at sunrise.

NS 8099 and 1069 doubled up on 955, returning back to Altoona, PA from The Masters for storage. Passing on former SOU trackage next to the Manassas Airport

Here we get a good look of the new Phase VII paint scheme that has started to grace the P42DC's as the California Zephyr 6 train runs past the BNSF's intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.

The California Zephyr 6 train rousts the pigeons as it runs past the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

"Streamliners At Spencer" mainline excursion....I believe they went to the intermodal terminal in Charlotte this day.

A ten car California-Nevada R.R. Historical Society Excursion is seen at Roseville California on November 30th 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

An eastbound Canadian National coal empty rolls through Robertson’s Curve leaving Swan Landing, Alberta, on the afternoon of July 13, 2013.

An eastbound BNSF freight hauls some freshly-rebuilt Union Pacific autoracks eastbound between Hope and Clark Fork, Idaho, on February 13, 2024. The newly-painted cars won’t stay like this long ... (more)

A westbound Norfolk Southern coal train, led by Altoona-rebuild “admiral cab” EMD SD60E No. 6943, curves out of Duffield, Virginia, on May 12, 2014.

A Grand Trunk Western freight heads northbound through McCook, Illinois, on the afternoon of December 5, 1987. GTW No. 6405 is a former Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad EMD GP38, joining the GTW... (more)

For reasons unknown SP train number 19, the Klamath, has arrived Gerber California 8 hours & 15 minutes late on July 30th 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.