Norfolk and Western 611 thunders up the steep North Mountain grade under threatening skies.

This looks like a Union Pacific SD60M, but closer inspection reveals that it has been re-lettered for current owner Manning Rail. This shortline operates over just a handful of miles of a former C... (more)

Union Pacific 6925 is living on borrowed time with metaphorical eviction notice to vacate the former Dakota Southern property now in operation by Watco's Ringneck & Western who leases the railroad... (more)

After helping a train over Wyoming’s Logan Hill to Bill on the morning of June 23, 2018, a Union Pacific helper scurries back to Nacco Junction to wait for another BNSF or UP coal load that need... (more)

Three trains meet at Nesquehoning Junction amid peak fall color. From left to right, a Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway excursion shoves south on the Jim Thorpe Branch while NRFF holds the main at Riv... (more)

Somebody Save Me. Former New York Central "T Motor" T-3a 278 (Alco, GE 1913-1926) and "S Motor" S-1 100 (Alco/GE, 1904) sit in Glenmont, New York on Sunday, March 19, 20... (more)

CSX's newest, yet unofficial "heritage unit", is ChessSX GP40-2 6914, seen here resting on a humid Georgia summer night at the small Wyvern Yard near Cartersville, Georgia. Unknown tagge... (more)

The Interbay Sand Tracks have been taken over by the seagulls these days but a few interesting older locomotives can be found lurking around. BNSF 1664 is one of two BNSF SD40-2s still around Sea... (more)

Likely the most widely used 4-wheel truck in American railroad is EMD’s Blomberg truck. A rebuilt Blomberg sits in the rain outside Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, ... (more)

After waiting for a few trains to pass, CP 7010 continues the trip east through Banff National Park near Castle Junction, AB on September 28th, 2022.

You spin me right round right round. This is the last active roundhouse and turntable combo in Washington state. Interbay is also home of Seattle's Fishermans Terminal, across the street from the ... (more)

Operating over the CSX as Z546-06 R.J. Corman's Kentucky Derby train nears the Downs for the 149th running. Pulling todays train are Cormans anniversary edition SD70M's 2023 and 1973.

NS 593 emerges from the Allegheny Tunnel as it heads westbound through Gallitzin PA on a rainy and cold October day. The train is passing a former Pennsylvania Railroad Caboose that sits at the G... (more)

David Moffat’s visions ended here at end-of-track in Craig, Colorado. He dreamed and spent his fortune with the goal of putting Denver on a direct main line to the west coast, with Salt Lake Cit... (more)

In my mind, there’s hardly anything better than a few beers around a campfire on a crisp, snowy Montana evening along the Clark Fork and Montana Rail Link’s busy Fourth Subdivision. Friends Da... (more)