The Westbound 'Overland' from Adelaide to Melbourne slips through peaceful Mount Lofty Station, in the Adelaide Hills near Stirling, at dusk on an autumn evening. The station is no longer served b... (more)

The interior of the San Diego train station. It's a classic!

CP in an urban setting. This ex-CP heavyweight is preserved at the John Street Roundhouse park in downtown Toronto. It was built by Canadian Car & Foundry in Montreal in 1931 as a 14-sectio... (more)

A view looking forward from JR West DMU railcar 120-349 as it barrels along through a blizzard near Nirehara, en route from Inotani to Toyama, Japan.

While many of the NYC era signal bridges have disappeared over the former Water Level Route, some reminders of the past can still be found such as this overpass at River Road. Last painted in 1955... (more)

The Ferry Yard office located on the former Ann Arbor mainline was a fixture on the railroad. The office was small and served the yard and crews as designed. However, after the end of the Ann Arbo... (more)

Banff Park brings up the rear of No 1 as it heads through Grant's Cut and into Rivers.

Tail end of a rail train. During a thick snowfall, a rail train heads west towards nearby Taschereau Yard after dropping off some rail on the Montreal Sub in Lachine. For a photo of ... (more)

Tanks and trucks, westbound. CN 705 (an empty oil train) has a good 50 or so flat cars with military equipment destined for Wainwright, Alberta. For a photo of the head end of this t... (more)

The CSXT Mountain Sub is 112 miles long and runs from Grafton, WV, to the Cumberland Terminal, MD. Along the route manned tower use to help train movements in the ABS double area. All these towers... (more)

A westbound BNSF coal train curves through the night below the cliffs of Lombard, Montana, on September 16, 2012.

CN uses a number of large vacuum trucks to suck spilled taconite pellets from between the rails on its former DM&IR ore lines in Minnesota. Here one of the trucks cleans the mainline through Proct... (more)

One of Union Pacific's prized dome cars, the "Harriman", trails UP 844 as it heads west down Donner Pass near Emigrant Gap, California.

These are the ore cars that haul the ore that builds the country. On the left is a northbound train of BNSF ore cars led by BNSF 6864 bound for U.S. Steel, Minntac and on the right is a southboun... (more)

Splitting the signals. AMT 704 (a fairly newly refurbished cab car in use on the AMT Candiac line) is splitting a pair of signals at Montreal West which are less than six months old. For a ... (more)