NS 26C derailment in Collegedale, Tennessee.

It’s 10:05 p.m. as an eastbound BNSF unit train slinks its way through Lombard Canyon and past illuminated Toston Dam between Toston and Lombard, Montana. Even at this late hour, the pretty suns... (more)

The red signal indicates that there is nothing coming north from Two Harbors for a while, but all eyes were on the sky on this night.

Otto's speed estimate was 80 MPH for this 13 car train near Valparaiso Indiana, on the PRR Chicago-Fort Wayne Line, in 1946. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

During a somewhat heavy snowfall, NBSR train 121 rumbles through Acamac, shortly after departing Saint John, New Brunswick. Unfortunately this train couldn't quite leave in daylight. The Snowfall ... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Operation Awareness and Response train is spread around the turntable tracks at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, in advance of the museum's annual Fire T... (more)

SP 4-8-8-2 4187 leads a westbound freight past the Caboose Cafe, in Los Angeles California, on August 2nd 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Some Interlay employee had a little fun with some of the soon to be retired SD45s making a "Rocky Lives" stencil and applying it to several units. This unit was done operating and featur... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built just seven SD45X diesels in 1970 – four demonstrators and three for Southern Pacific Railroad. EMDX 4201-4203 were built with SP's typical array of ... (more)

Daylight begins to illuminate the Senate Ave yard job which is tied down on the tail track at the north end.

These days, The Bates Branch Loadout tends to be a storage yard for Track Maintenance Equipment.

Damaged rail can be caused by flat spots on wheels and high tonnage. Defects like this one can eventually give way and cause a derailment, especially in cold weather. Railroads are usually thorou... (more)

The CSX Chessie System Heritage unit leads the Loiusville to Philadelphia autorack train past the historic B&O Railroad designed station at Point of Rocks on a foggy July morning. Many Chessie ... (more)

UP Y729 running as Metra extra 5901 departs CPT with the 553 headed to Elburn for storage.

Led by a matched pair of GE P42DCs, Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr begins its journey through the Rocky Mountains on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. The eight-car passenger trai... (more)