Center Creek Crossing | Mixed power on the head end of an empty grain train crosses the bridge over Center Creek at Carl Junction, MO on the warm evening of Sunday, November 17, 2024.

CSX Seaboard Air Line Heritage Engine at the Seaboard Air Line station in Hamlet

OOPS! A PBNE crew seems to have run into some problems as shown in this image from April 1975! Unlike today's derailment cleanup crews with large fleets of equipment, McHugh Brothers was called in... (more)

An Old Goat Can Still Scream On July 23rd, 2024, Amtrak MP15DC #537 was in charge of taking the Portland Extra equipment move to Boston to drop off bad-ordered Downeaster equipment. Around... (more)

An early UP passenger train leaves Denver, probably for Omaha.

This 2-10-0 steam loco is now a piece of street art in the suburbs of Wroclaw, Poland. It is called "The train to Heaven".

Moving Power. On August 8, 2015, a Norfolk Southern special move passed through Horseshoe Curve in Altoona Pennsylvania with a cargo of export locomotives from General Electric in Erie, Pen... (more)

With a pair of Union Pacific locomotives on the point, CSX train S836 rolls into Richmond, Virginia with a loaded DODX explosives train. The train is passing along the north bank of the of James R... (more)

As the morning sun pokes through the clouds, a UP manifest winds its way through the Tehachapi Loop as it heads northbound toward Bakersfield.

NJ Transit has unveiled their next heritage unit, and they continue to outdo themselves. NJTR 4208 is probably one of the most faithful reproductions of the Conrail paint scheme since "big C... (more)

Sand train southbound with 2 clean DPU locos pushing pass by the Wabtec spur with 2 NS engines being delivered for rebuilding.

Santa Fe did some experimenting with warbonnet schemes after the Amtrak takeover. Since the red warbonnet was affiliated with passenger service, it was too attractive to just throw away. This was ... (more)

Santa Fe Grand Canyon departing Chicago. Consist reflects loss of mail contracts after 1967.

On June 19, 1952, a perfect A-B-B-B-B-A set of Chicago Great Western Fs is right on time with an eastbound manifest at Oelwein, Iowa. Photo by Jim Scribbins, from my collection.

6014 derailed in Radnor ya , and caught fire. no injuries .