Looking down on the main concourse of Denver Union Station on the morning of September 2, 2021. Amtrak’s ticket office is on the left side of the far doors that go to all tracks, with shops and ... (more)

Dead and Gone. A pair of semaphores continue to stand, although devoid of most of their components, on the ex-Monon CSX Hoosier Subdivision in Hitchcock, awaiting a train that will never come.

On a Roll: As part of the shop tour included in the 2016 "AEM7 Farewell" excursion, Amtrak's employees had set up a lovely display of all the various pieces of equipment required ... (more)

Containers keep arriving via truck, and Union Pacific Mi-Jack No. 91001 keeps moving down the line and loading them into a well cars, at Joliet Intermodal Terminal (also known as Global IV) at Jol... (more)

A contracted worker is seen transferring a coal load from one hopper to another as the bad order hopper has “burst” out on the underside of the body.

After traversing the north leg of the Memphis Sub connection, a UP Geometry car is now heading south into downtown Bald Knob and will be staged in the small yard south of town for later usage.

Brakeman Dennis Wimer mans the hand brake as our train descends the steep grade from Whittaker Station back to the Cass Depot.

After a crew accidentally shoved a single coal car off the end of the Switching Lead track at Grafton, The Car department is on scene and is using their crane and re-railing equipment to get the s... (more)

Here we see the process of the removal of #2 main. CSX had decided some months ago that it was not needed and the decision was made to remove the track. This section of double track is on the CSX ... (more)

Little Depot in the Sky

A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)

Welders at Union Pacific’s De Soto, Missouri, car shop repair freight car truck side frames on September 28, 2011.

Ripped to pieces. This tank car has had better days but is now being scrapped after being involved in a derailment. The tank sitting beside the slain car has a similar fate as it is next in line f... (more)

A couple of knuckleheads

Now, the world unique turntable with 3 crossing standard gauge rack-tracks (Riggenbach cogwheel system) of the Rigi Bahnen, developed by the engineer Theo Stolz, is finished. In addition to turnin... (more)

On March 3, 2021 an eastbound manifest train derailed near Ludlow, putting 44 cars on the ground. It took a few days to get rail traffic restored but almost 2 months later there are the remains of... (more)