Engineer of the most powerful one meter gauge cogwheel steamlocomotive of Europe, the 0-8-0 T HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB), when running around the train in Oberwald.

A bitter cold winter day has caused a rail break on the Wisconsin Central main line entering Shops Yard near the Subway Road grade crossing at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, on December 11, 1994. T... (more)

A worker at Chicago & North Western’s Butler Yard locomotive facility uses a high pressure air line to clear the switches of snow on a cold February 21, 1993.

"Knocking off the Slag at Farmingdale" A Long Island Rail Road track worker knocks off slag from a recent thermite weld at the Secatogue Ave grade crossing on Main Line 1. Thermi... (more)

"Thermite Welding at Farmingdale" A Long Island Rail Road track gang thermite welds new rail at the Secatogue Ave grade crossing on Main Line 1. Thermite welding is the process o... (more)

Today's power for the Delson Roadswitcher is the unique Montreal Locomotive Works 1,000 HP RS-23. The crew have picked up an empty bulkhead flat car from the Domtar Wood Preserving Plant in the b... (more)

In may be one of the strangest sights I've ever seen, a pair of CMQ SD40-2Fs, along with one of CP's military units, reverse light at Scott Street in Franklin Park. With the Sears Tower providing ... (more)

Student Engineer Rikki Burchett takes her turn at the throttle of 4501 on her first trip in the seat with the Missionary Ridge Local. Safe to say that this Mikado is just a little bigger than the ... (more)

NX-13 begins its journey north out of Canaan to Pittsfield on a muggy summer afternoon.

Firing the most powerful cogwheel steamlocomotive of Europe, the 0-8-0 HG 4/4 # 704 of the DFB with 800 HP.

Reenactors playing the role of a conductor and his assistant transport the group of photographers on hand for this year's annual Rail Giants Train Museum Night Photography Session back in time thr... (more)

The inbound engineer briefs with the outbound conductor in front of the La Junta Depot where Denver crews hand of the trains to Amarillo crews.

As is the case for most things from the steam era, running the Nevada Northern's 100 ton steam wrecking crane A is a labor intensive undertaking. After successfully re-railing #81's tender, the c... (more)

Manual change of rails on the FCAB line over the Cumbre pass in the north of Chile.

As Metrolink train 926 rolls into its stop in Fullerton, California, the conductor prepares to load what few passengers are awaiting this Irvine to Los Angeles train. The COVID-19 pandemic has re... (more)