EMDX 7237 is waiting for its next assignment but it would be delayed by an engine failure. 5 hours later, the locomotive derails on the wye.

N&W 475, a 4-8-0 "Mastodon" type steam locomotive, leads a Strasburg Railroad train past the Red Caboose Motel and Casey Jones Restaurant on its way back to the Strasburg station after t... (more)

Marching into Van Dyne
With a light pall of exhaust laying down over the power, Soo Line train 19 marches into Van Dyne, Wisconsin, on the sunny, late afternoon of August 2, 1987. Powere... (more)

The Airbnb vacation home we rented in Montana had an outdoor fire pit perfect for hanging out, enjoying a beer and grilling brats over an open fire. An added attraction is a westbound BNSF train g... (more)

The elusive PL1 job slowly brings a cut of propane cars through Terryville Tunnel in Terryville, CT. PL1 is working Inland Propane on the west side of the tunnel. After dropping these empties on t... (more)

2015 saw a majority of FEC's six axle EMD fleet in lease service to CSXT. Many assigned to Bone Valley local service....or, in this case, remote yard duty. "Taken with permission"

I'm a bit behind the times, so this is my first shot of the famed Reading & Northern NRFF, otherwise known as "America's Freight Train". NRFF is seen crossing the Lehigh River at the aptly named ... (more)

New Home. This former UP unit has found a new home with the rarely photographed Charlotte Western Railroad (the official name even though the unit is lettered Charlotte & Western). The CWR... (more)

A special scheme on C44-9WM #9042 standing by with ballast train W44 at Guaianã yard.

With a pair of Bessemer tunnel motors bracketing an SD40-2W, Canadian National dock job R921 shoves out on to Dock 6 in Duluth, Minnesota with a train of loaded ore hoppers for unloading. Alongsid... (more)

In a view from our Airbnb vacation accommodations, a westbound BNSF unit oil train climbs Winston Hill between Townsend and Winston, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision main line ... (more)

Following the Big Hole River, UP MPCSB rolls northbound through the La Marche Gulch with no. 1943, "The Spirit of the Union Pacific" veterans unit, in the lead.

SP 2-8-2 790 leads a 57 car westbound freight at Galveston Texas in 1936. Otto's speed estimate was 18 MPH, and he caught it with the rods down. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Whole Lotta Blue PSU 2020, Penn State's donated SD60I sits in its new resting place outside the Railroaders Museum roundhouse. Looming overhead is a preserved PRR position light tower dona... (more)

Radnor Yd roundhouse at Nashville , Tn