Union Pacific 4-12-2 9514, Class UP-5, was built by ALCO in 1930, one of eighty-eight locomotives. As built, she was numbered 9077, later re-numbered to 9514. These three-cylinder locomotives had... (more)

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

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.

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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.

Just minutes after the sun lit the tracks, 20G runs south on the NS Mon Line while loaded coal train 582 runs north as the last of the fall colors are at peak on Mount Washington. I'd never actual... (more)

An eastbound coal train is stopped on the Rocky siding and stretches west into the Little Ten Curve. In the background a Union Pacific freight train has completed the Big Ten Curves and continues ... (more)

While waiting for a photo of Amtrak 799, I was pleasantly surprised to catch a southbound UP freight. Ironically, in the summer months when the sun is right for this shot, morning fog is very com... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Cardinal, train no. 50, arrives for a flagstop at Thurmond, West Virginia, in the heart of the New River Gorge.

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)