It's often tough to get good pix while on a family vacation, but the Izaak Walton Inn perhaps offers an exception. Here between Red Bus tours and lake boat rides I found time for a morning trip o... (more)

Big Boy 4017 is being looked over by two enthusiastic fans at the National Railroad Museum.

Full Moon Baretables. As the full moon rises in the east a westbound baretable train races west on the Seligman Subdivision after the sun which has just set a few minutes earlier.

NS 8980 sits on the mainline, laying down a cloud of white smoke and oil all over town.

Tank train crashed into a train with lots of new Porsche and Audi cars.

A meet of epic proportions! BNSF 5427 meets UP 844 and SP 4449 with the steam spectacular. And yes, the rumors are true, I did use a step ladder to take this picture. Almost got blown over in th... (more)

Brakeshoes smoking, limestone loads descend the 4% grade on the lower loop crossing of US 50 near Maysville.

Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train #55 struck a rock slide this morning shortly after 10 am south of Northfield, Vermont, and derailed. The locomotive and head car left the rails and traveled in... (more)

With temperatures in the high 30s F, the Union Pacific Great Race 150 train departs Evanston, Wyoming, with Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4014 and 4-8-4 #844 putting on an impressive show of steam and smoke as... (more)

Westbound freight above new ballast and evidence of recent resurfacing before the advent of the ubiquitous 4000s (I hope to live long enough to miss them). This line got heavier 136 lb. rail in 2... (more)

Night photo shoot for the Soo Line Historical Society Convention. Lighting by Steve Barry.

The railroad keeps moving even in the worst of weather. A large blizzard has just finally passed the area after dumping over a foot of snow the night before. Two Soo Line GP38-2s bring the local b... (more)

Just before sunup in frosty downtown Keystone, W.Va., NS's Interstate heritage unit shoves train No. 776 up Elkhorn Grade, with locomotives in notch-8, awakening the sleeping mining community on a... (more)

BNSF had 30-plus cars run away from Rennick Yard Denver into 31st Street. Salt Mine job with two units, BNSF 2505 and GP28M 1532, were hit by cars doing about 40 mph. BNSF 2505's frame is all that... (more)

This is certainly one way to transport 737's to Boeing. Boeing 737 Fuselages are seen traveling from the Boeing plant in Wichita, KS going to the assembly plant in Washington by rail.