The Semmering railway (German: Semmeringbahn) in Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag was the first mountain railway in Europe built with a standard gaug... (more)

Union Pacific 'Employee Appreciation' SD70ACe 1111, formerly UP 8362, on display at 'Home Plate' in Omaha along with UP 4141.

Blue hour Saturday morning as Big Boy slumbers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth after its run up BNSF from the Twin Cities.

With newly rebuilt AC44C6M locomotives being added to the roster with numbers in the 4000 series, the Norfolk Southern Executive units had to be renumbered and repainted. Here, in Altoona, the F ... (more)

The Mississippi River has caused alot of headaches in the Midwest with the railroads this spring. The river crested at Burlington, IA, (19 miles upstream) on 6-02 was the 3rd highest crest on reco... (more)

A large string of EMD BNSF SD70MAC locomotives is still stored alongside BNSF’s yard between Donkey Creek and Rozet, Wyoming, on October 18, 2018.

𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐥𝐞! What a truly awesome way to start off 2019. Something extremely rare happened on New... (more)

A 115-Car Worm Chasing It's Tail. Looking like something right off the set of your club's model train layout, BNSF 6513 along with four other GE's idlle quietly this morning on the large, f... (more)

The early morning sun rises on a plethora of stored locomotives in the West Yard.

For many year the Union Pacific 4141 has been stored on this track at the Jenks shops, most of the time covered with tarps to protect it. Now the call to duty has come. On this national day of mou... (more)

Apparently the Ex-Conrail GP8 at the grain elevator in Tamora, Nebraska needed a little help building air. The folks at the Co-Op strapped an air compressor up on the front pilot.

On what turned out to be a very cold day a buddy and I drove the 212 miles from Anchorage to Cantwell where the Alaska RR snow fleet had tied up for the night. With a 0600 call time we knew we wou... (more)

Not many things can make a UP Big Boy look small, but the Great Lakes vessel Joseph L Block sure does. The 4-8-8-4 was backing its train toward a wye in West Duluth as the Block unloaded limestone... (more)

Getting a load out of Claremont Paper. As the cars got heavier and the engines more tired, it was sometimes necessary to use two locomotives to get up this grade and around this tight curve. It co... (more)