A Half-Dozen Alligators by the Docks

In the south, this means that it’s probably a good time to go fishing, In Marquette, Michigan, it meant that ore was moving on the Lake Superio... (more)

Two sets of Lake Superior & Ishpeming power, one GE and the other Alco, wait for assignments at Eagle Mills, Michigan.

In the final light of the day, Weirton Steel S2 211 hauls slag through Weirton, West Virginia.

The Reading & Northern Tamaqua Local has just backed eight loads of anthracite onto the main from the last remaining segment of the Lehigh & New England main line, which is reached via the connect... (more)

During the course of an excursion with Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 on Sherman Hill, several run-bys were all but obliterated by smoke that was blown on the photographers’ side of the train by the S... (more)

The smoke from Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 mixes with the heavy clouds during a run-by on the Lone Tree Fill west of Buford, Wyoming.

Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 3985 enters storm territory as it executes a runby west of Colores, Wyoming,

The Reading and Columbia Rail Road completed its trackage between Sinking Spring and Columbia, Pennsylvania in 1864. With trackage rights over the Reading’s Lebanon Valley Branch between Reading a... (more)

The Columbia & Reading Railway operates about one and a quarter miles of the timetable western end of the former Reading’s Reading & Columbia Branch. The mainstay business is a scrapyard that gene... (more)

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 pulls a photo run by at MP 555.7, about a mile and a half west of Colores, Wyoming.

The engineer of Norfolk & Western 1218 watches his train as he backs it around the wye at Front Royal, Virginia.

Happier Times at Happy Creek

Norfolk & Western 1218 storms though the small settlement of Happy Creek, Virginia with an Alexandria – Front Royal excursion. Since the 611 ran here a... (more)

Amtrak Keystone Service train 656 moves east through Ronks, Pennsylvania under cloudy skies in the early evening.

Without the 1970’s GM iron inconveniently parked in sight of this vantage point, this could easily have been a scene from the 1950’s in rural Virginia. In fact, Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1218 is l... (more)

Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1218 drifts past a well-manicured lawn in Belvoir, Virginia with an Alexandria – Front Royal excursion. The landowner here allowed the train to unload for photo runbys h... (more)