Size and Scale. Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) test weight car no. 999951 (Altoona Shop, 1909) is seen on display at the Danbury Railway Museum. Conveniently the cars on the track behind i... (more)

Big: With a whole siding to itself, legendary "Big Boy" No. 4012 lends its imposing presence to the Steamtown entrance.

Matched Oranges. Genesee & Wyoming owned Providence and Worcester Railroad' tri-weekly train FPCH (Fresh Pond [Queens], NY-Cedar Hill [New Haven], CT) had a four-pack of GE C40-8s for power... (more)

Traffic on the tracks at Borough Market junction. Photo taken from the tower 'The Shard'

Forty Years Ago at UP's East Yard

For as long as I can remember (which, for the record, is back to about 1968 in regard to the Union Pacific Railroad), the UP has been the... (more)

Canadian in Connecticut. Canadian National (CN) FPA-4 no. 6786 (Montreal Locomotive Works, 1959) and New York, New Haven & Hartford (NH) "washboard" MU lounge car 5111 (Pullman-Standard... (more)

Two SP relics work the Kenton Line on a warm Spring afternoon

The "Pink Hour" at Laws. Between first light and the first appearance of the morning sun over the mountains to the east, the Owens Valley experiences an interesting optical phenom... (more)

The elusive PL1 job slowly brings a cut of propane cars through Terryville Tunnel in Terryville, CT. PL1 is working Inland Propane on the west side of the tunnel. After dropping these empties on t... (more)

Amtrak 4 slows down due to signal issues during a thunderstorm. The famed “Wagon Mound” can be seen among the dark clouds and distant thunderheads.

Misty Morning In Gentry | The sun has come up over Gentry, AR where southbound train Q576 crosses Main Street on the cool morning of Monday, May 22, 2023. Running on the main track, Q576 is... (more)

On March 11, 1989, a set of Chicago Central & Pacific locomotives rumble by Corwith Tower. This tower protected the Illinois Central (formerly ICG/GM&O) with Santa Fe tracks into Corwith Yard, and... (more)

With a total snowfall of 730" recorded on Donner Pass, the winter of 2022-23 was one for the books and although the weather has finally started to warm, that much Sierra cement does not disappear ... (more)

In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the lin... (more)