Day becomes night as smoke from the Lake Arrowhead fire blankets the San Bernardino Valley. With gusts over 40mph the trains were running few and infrequent today. Strange how such tragic events,... (more)

High speed running! Simpson 1201 is delivering a string of empty flat cars to the mill at Dayton and is running around the cars in order to shove them into the mill. Is walking speed too fast? ... (more)

ATSF 3751 passes by Calafia Beach on its southbound journey to San Diego

Many different BNSF locomotives sit at Birmingham Rail awaiting the scrappers torch. *photo taken with permission*

The track and concrete footprint are all that remain of the RJ Corman locomotive shop in Guthrie, KY after being destroyed by fire on 10/5/2014. The 3 locomotives are still in the same spot they ... (more)

One of three that won't make it thru the day, this old F is being dismembered for parts and scrap. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.

Picked Switch (Derailment) at MP 96 - The first of a set of five (5) former Chicago Northwestern (CNW) commuter cars that were acquired by Chicago Metra (METX) and later sold as surplus lie... (more)

Norfolk Southern 4000 and 4001 pose together outside the paint shop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for their first portrait. The locomotives wear a new, special paint scheme to designate the units as... (more)

A few hours earlier, CN Q101 smashed into the side of VIA #1 in Jasper's station track. When #1 arrived in Jasper, they left a switch open after shoving into the clear in the station track. Luckil... (more)

Colorado & Southern 2-8-0 no. 608 surrounded by freight cars in the yard behind Denver Union Station in 1958. Photograph by more)

Due to a combination of a harsh winter, booming oil industry, and aggressive trackwork, Amtrak's Prized train, the Empire Builder detours over the KO Sub. While the eastbound train 8 still uses i... (more)

SP SD35 6902 suffers an electrical fire as the train waits in the hole in Soledad Canyon west of Palmdale, CA on July 15, 1973. The crew never noticed the smoke pouring out of the second locomotiv... (more)

Autumn high above Willsboro Bay on CP Rails scenic D&H North End with 250 winning the race handily with a lake kayaker (in CP Red) far below at 10:45.

Early morning action...eastbound and westbound stack trains.

Norfolk Southern Railway Company 8114 leads its first revenue train towards Andover, seen here squeezing thru the small railroad bore within the naturally-made Natural Tunnel. The creek created m... (more)