A C&A local eases over the swing bridge spanning the Pasquotank River in Elizabeth City, NC. Many things came together for this photo-- a delay caused them to cross the bridge northbound in daylig... (more)

CAGY 48 (Greenwood - Greenville, MS local) heads west by the historic Heathman Plantation building with a rather odd consist of 105 empty coal hoppers, which will be stored east of Greenville for ... (more)

The conductor sets the derail as SW 28 shoves into the siding at Hockett to tie down for the day. Southwestern's Whitewater Division sees a local between Deming and Rincon a few times a week. Th... (more)

DME train WIHU (Winona, MN - Huron, SD) works west through Utica, passing an old grain elevator with a vintage Ford grain truck.

To call TTI's trackage through downtown Carlisle, KY "tight" is an understatement. As the coal train crawls through the tight curves at 10 mph, several roads converge at this crossing, with cars ... (more)

OmniTrax's Alabama & Tennessee River RR train Z389 operates between CSX Boyles Yard in Birmingham, AL and ATN's yard in Gadsden, AL typically 3 times a week. The train is difficult to find out on ... (more)

Gulf & Ohio Railways' Knoxville Locomotive Works is a major shop, providing services for not only its own shortline railroads, but also contract work for outside customers. NS SD40-2 1634 rests o... (more)

EFRX 109 hits a bright spot in the shadows of the tall trees in a typical Pacific Northwest setting, returning with cars from the BNSF interchange at Snohomish. This is the GNP Railway, dba Easts... (more)

MMA 8560 leads an Arizona Eastern local into Duncan, AZ on a warm spring day. Locals are gathering at Jo's while the AZER local pulls into town to tie down before getting a new crew to continue t... (more)

TTI 5793 and two other vintage U36Bs shove on the rear of a TTI coal train bound for Maysville, KY, passing the classic Bourbon Drive In. This shot sums up why I pursue almost exclusively shortli... (more)

Job 2 is on the western outskirts of Millinocket very early on a Saturday morning. No stop at Jackman this day has Job 2 almost home and it's barely even 6am, likely to the delight of the crew.

Sunset on the MMA-- literally and figuratively, as the 120 local from Squa Pan heads into the sunset on the Easton Branch. This portion of the system is among 241 miles in northern Maine proposed... (more)

ELS 400 returning to N. Green Bay after a run to Crivitz, WI passing a nice autumn scene in "downtown" Beaver, WI.

Fortunately for this crew, the Civil War ended years ago and the cannon has long been silent. Former Algoma Central FP9 1755 stretches her legs this day on the freight, in a pre-tourist season wo... (more)