Railway maintenance in Ghinda

Riding the rails as the once proud General Electric unit of the Burlington Northern Railroad now sits on display in Gillette for railfans and non-railfans alike to view. The unit sits all alone on... (more)

Remote-controlled AS616 #367 rumbles through Ensley, AL. I believe the guy with the Ghostbusters backpack is the operator. I also think this unit was re-engined with and EMD engine. I saw one r... (more)

A switching move didn't turn out as planned and now the local crew has to resort to poling to shove this car clear of the switch and free their locomotive.

A trio of mixed Clinchfield power moves through a switch in the yard in Erwin, TN. This was a typical style lashup for the Clinchfield during this time, as management and yardmasters took the idea... (more)

This graphic depiction of a calamity of railroading was scanned from a small snap shot taken by an unknown person in the ‘30s. The location is the Louisville & Nashville’s yard at Corbin, KYâ€... (more)

Crew change time and another round of tourists load up in downtown Anchorage for a run north to McKinley. In addition to the usual named passenger trains that run on a daily basis during the summ... (more)

In the typical hazy glare of a summer afternoon in Alabama, Southern 2595 leads a westbound local a couple miles outside Alex City.

On a gray March afternoon, the NS crew has just returned from a trip up the branch to Lafayette, and will end their day working the Opelika yard with GP30 2536, still in a well-preserved Southern ... (more)

Conrail is very much in its infancy as two former EL trainman have a lively discussion in the yard at Binghamton, NY on April 10, 1976.

It was a more innocent time… when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and that’s what the photographer found when he visited there on June... (more)

2 local girls ignore metre gauge YP 2358 as it leaves Kodaikanal Road with the Madurai Tirupati Express (note the headboard). This line is now converted to 5 feet 6 inch gauge.

It's a pretty safe bet the engineer on this train switching in Opelika, Alabama on a spring morning 37 years ago was close to the end of his career. But 5026 - three years old in this shot - is st... (more)

Montgomery, like most cities, once had a web of track that served downtown commercial businesses and warehouses. On just such a section of track - removed years ago - CSX 1230 heads across Pollard... (more)

GARR 1031 is heading home to Chester Yard with a transfer cut from L&N as a crew member gets ready to drop off and flag the train across North Court Street.