At the Mid-Atlantic Materials sand pit, there's a former Western Maryland S2 in full WM paint under all of that sand.

Happiness is finding a string of bright blue Rock Island hopper cars in your hometown! ROCK 700193 and company are at Provo Yard, ready to be loaded with Utah bituminous coal on June 25, 1978.

Following a weekend snowstorm, the Batten Kill Railroad set out to work the Cargill-Salem, New York mill on February 16, with a planned run to Eagle Bridge, NY with the company's snow flanger in t... (more)

Alco S2 #1043 working at Plainview, TX || Sept 1990

Cartier M636 #49 south bound log train headed back to Port Cartier is at mp23 QUE. 9/18/2001 Cartier #49 is ex-CN 2321 which was built 7/1/1971

Extraordinary circumstances have brought Rock Island 131 to Palmer Lake on June 27, 1965. A massive series of storms two weeks before swept away almost every railroad line into Denver. UP’s trac... (more)

A pair of ALCOs were working the South Buffalo yard in Buffalo

In pre-G&W days, the homebound leg of LR&W's Little Rock turn climbs out of the Arkansas River valley behind a C420/geep combo.

RS-18u 1800 cuts the grass in the Newport yard, marking the winding down of CP operations in Vermont.

Arkansas and Missouri's original owners, the Hannolds, were very receptive to rail photography - so much so that they sponsored several invitation-only photographer specials. My friend Rich Jahn w... (more)

STE job returning from WP interchange in Stockton

The Alcos lasted way longer after the merger with IC than any of us local fans predicted. We figured Paducahs would roll in immediately, but the RS-1s hung around until 1975, doing everything in ... (more)

The current Allentown yard is a much different facility than it was prior to being rebuilt in 1978-9. Today, the main tracks are next to the Lehigh canal, on the opposite side of the yard from thi... (more)

A matched multi-mark set of big Canadian Pacific Railway MLWs - M636 4719 and M630 4571 - roll into East Binghamton, New York, with a short 554 intermodal train that originated in Montreal. Scann... (more)

"Cutting Through Town"

Although the residents of Dover are no stranger to trains in their town as NJT's Morris and Essex line also runs through there, the M&E still requires a co... (more)