A freshly painted UP 1988 'The Katy' Heritage Unit leads a short manifest out of Wichita, Kansas bound for Kansas City, MO.

With NS 1074--the Lackawanna heritage engine--leading the way, NS Train 16T cuts through early morning fog as it heads north through the serene countryside at Arcadia, VA.

A standard cab SD70 and a UP SD70ACe bring coal loads Westbound through Matewan on a nice May evening.

The New Kid in Town: Well, although not necessarily 'new', this 1967-built Hawker Siddeley RTC-85 sure looks good on her Fiftieth birthday. On a sunny May evening in downtown Toronto, a fe... (more)

Never a dull moment. On August 25, 2008 we were told to remove a string of six older interplant boxcars from the coal track for scrap. They'd been in there for several years and the track was comp... (more)

Bridge out! Where? To look at this picture no one would think that approximately 55 hours prior, 5 loaded grain cars derailed and completely wiped out the previous bridge and spilled all their con... (more)

ATSF Alco PA-1 No.61 lead unit on train #1 the SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF at Amarillo, Texas.

Westbound grain train at Horsethief State Park in the Columbia River Gorge.

Cass Scenic Railroad Shay No. 5 leads the first photo excursion along the former Chesapeake & Ohio Greenbrier line in more than 30 years. The locomotive, which has been disguised as a former Green... (more)

I could have been much worse. On a rainy Thursday in Fort Collins, Colorado, the driver turned right as the train was approaching and missed the road, turning instead too soon and ending up on the... (more)

17,732 tons of export coal glides across Chuckanut Bay with two ES44ACs on the head end and one ES44AC and one SD70ACe on the rear as DP.

After working CN 546 at Oshawa, I decided to venture out to the interchange track where CP 5755 sits silently, her fate sealed with the scrapper at K&K recycling in Pickering. Built in London, Ont... (more)

OCS (Office Car Special) deadheading back to Altoona from Augusta, Georgia, following the Masters golf tournament.

MOBERLY MO Sept 16 1979 -- Norfolk & Western C30-7 8036, handling the head end of a mixed freight, has stopped just past mile post 148 .

UP 9102 stops at Reno Junction with a loaded coal train while an empty CNW coal train heads back to the mine. The threatening skies were common on our trip to the Powder River Coal Line in May of ... (more)