Tram 2 in the center of Amsterdam

The RJ Corman Kentucky Line's empty Alcan train rolls through the middle of Main Street in Midway, Kentucky as it heads east to Berea for another load of aluminum ingots. In the lead is the newest... (more)

A crew member enjoys some fresh air from the window on NP F-9A Extra 7004A West. The tonnage freight makes its way upgrade near milepost 121, about five miles west of Livingston, on June 5, 19... (more)

A warm summer evening sunset burns in the sky above the Biloxi Bay and CSX’s New Orleans & Montgomery Subdivision. As gentle waves lap the shore, CSX long distance local L800 is framed from the ... (more)

Above average temperatures and little snowfall have made for some fog filled nights as evident by the beams from the signals at Noimi Jct. on the CN Minntac Sub. A CN mixed freight is northbound ... (more)

Looking like a MAC daddy on display at Fairbanks Railroad Day is SD70MAC # 4328 in a special scheme influenced by Alaska Railroad's first blue and yellow locomotives of the 1950s. This year, 2023... (more)

Fire In Town. On July 23, 2015, an early morning fire in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia caused tremendous smoke throughout the area, though miraculously only damaged three buildings and there... (more)

The Harrison local nears the end of the approximately weekly journey to the agribusiness in Harrison. Today's catch was 2 loads of fertilizer inbound and one empty outbound. It's hard to believe... (more)

The Big Hill! The name originally given the "Big Hill" was the original 4.5% eastbound grade out of Field, BC, that directly assaulted the Continental Divide, while a better solu... (more)

Look, Ma! No Fuel Tank!

EMDX SD40J 50, a Joule Battery Electric Locomotive built on the frame of an SD40-2 by Progress Rail Locomotive Inc. in Brazil, switches autoracks ... (more)

The mysterious case of an "unofficial" Chessie System nose job was seen by many photographers on this day as train L810-11 worked its way to Cedartown, GA. Many remain baffled by the fact that thi... (more)

Union Pacific train number 111, the City of Denver, is seen leaving Denver on its first westbound run, with ten cars at 35 MPH, on June 19th 1936. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

West Virginian Ways | Loaded coal train 766 crawls up the mainline on the famous Elkhorn Grade of the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas District, passing a coal transload facility near the commun... (more)

BNSF intermodal exiting the famed Tehachapi Loop.

Chicago’s Iconic Tunnels. CN train L536 crawls through Downtown Chicago with IC 1000, the “class unit” IC SD70 leading a CN SD75I and SD70M-2. They are seen here tip toeing under the ... (more)