A Soo Line train using trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road derailed during its nightly trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April 1984. I don’t recall the details, but I seem to remember that the ... (more)

The CRSA special departs Union Station and explodes out of the new shed between Lake St and Canal St at the end of the morning rush. This train will head to Janesville, WI and return with a solid ... (more)

Coal empties tackle the 1.8% grade and reverse curves of the famous Crater Loops as they climb toward Toponas Summit, Steamboat Springs, and the Colorado coal fields on Union Pacific's Craig Branc... (more)

A pair of MTA Subway trains thread the low-rise, urban density of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The dome of the landmark Williamsburg Bank is the product of venerated architect William B. Post, also n... (more)

Blue hour Saturday morning as Big Boy slumbers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth after its run up BNSF from the Twin Cities.

For the first time in many months, ex ATSF CF7 #2627 returns to service on the Clinton Terminal, hauling a cut of scrap gons into Clinton. This engine had been "deadlined" for months pri... (more)

The rails glow with the last minutes of sunset as a short eastbound crosses into Ohio on the former Nickel Plate.

Sometimes you never know, what you are going to shoot, coming out of the darkness at night. This night the train gods smiled again, as emerging from the dark at Westport Station, SOO SD 60 6042 le... (more)

It is the last day of the year in Anchorage, AK. The weather isn't too bad a balmy 14 degrees everything looks good for a railfan photographer, well in most cases anyway, except this is Alaska in ... (more)

Oops! The Rose Yard job split some switches while doing their work this morning.

Something different, double frog switches, for small yards without a lot of space, not sure how many of these are around anymore.

On December 16, 1963, Santa Fe Train No. 2, the eastbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF struck a cattle truck just west of Clovis, New Mexico, derailing five F-units and 10 cars. Two days later, on a cloudy... (more)

Looking down. Horizon unlevel, indeed.

In celebration of its 150th anniversary, Union Pacific is running a special train around its system led by the famed trio of E9s. This morning the train departed Spokane after another successful ... (more)

Metre gauge 2915 heads another train of pilgrims returning from the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi.