The speed is already dropping as these three big motors start to tackle the stiff grade over the Blue Ridge. Soon they will enter the famed Southern Rwy loops. This was a lucky catch as I saw this... (more)

A W sleeper train, this means an empty passengers train, come back from Briancon.

Westbound at Frostburg. With her throttle still open, Western Maryland 734 approaches the city of Frostburg, looking as if she's not about to stop anytime soon. Seventy years ago, this tra... (more)

Yeshvatpur bound Karnataka Sampark Kranti express through a hill cutting near Adarki station.

Maryland Heights overlooking Harpers Ferry, WV offers several vantage points. Here the rock outcroppings provide a frame for an eastbound coal train. The Hilltop House can be seen on the opposite ... (more)

NH&I #40: Carpe noctem!

CCGX 4009 rumbles up the grade with seven cars in trail. The Niagara Escarpment is in the background.

The Weather Network called for 5 centimetres of snow today. That's a couple of inches by my reckoning. Hasn't let up yet, I wonder how many times that they really meant...

An eastbound empty grainer enters a wintery scene in the hamlet of Index on its run up Stevens Pass.

Fireball freight heads west. Wearing the fireball logo of the Western Maryland Railway, a heavy 2-8-0 heads west around Helmstetter's Curve with a freight consist on a bleak January morning... (more)

Looking a whole lot like UP's Sandy Local, a Salt Lake City Southern 'Draper turn' glides north along the former Union Pacific Provo Subdivision at 100th South in Sandy. On April 14, 1993, the SLC... (more)

A fresh 8 inches of snow had fallen as U825 rounds Kessler Curve on the Magnolia Cutoff.

A heavy stack train moves up Kingman Canyon as the DPUs help push all the stack containers to Winslow.

Gringo- A man named "Gringo" gets ready to cast out into the San Sebastian River, off the US 1 bridge as FEC's train 210 sails by on a beautiful Florida morning.