A member of the team that is restoring Santa Fe 2926 climbs out of the firebox of the big Northern. More information about the restoration of the locomotive can be found at their website: www.nms... (more)

CN 8952 GTW Heritage unit sits in the Battle Creek Michigan CN yard on a snowy November afternoon

''Garratt beneath an African sky.'' The magnificent GMAM Garratt lies silent beneath A STARY SKY.

A special Amtrak train from Portland, Oregon to Redding, California has just crossed over the Oregon/California state line on the Shasta Route. The original California Northeastern grade can be se... (more)

On a beautiful late autumn afternoon, two clean UP units rumble north over the historical Rondout Creek Gorge over the 150ft high trestle after meeting southbound Q158 at CP-80 at West Park. The h... (more)

Reading and Northern 270, formerly one of the NS F units, leads a passenger train to Jim Thorpe from Reading.

Wings on the Overland Route

Westbound at track speed a matched set of clean near new EMD’s charge my vantage point at the base of the “Great Pink Panther” just east of Dale Jun... (more)

I have always seen the backyard of the Bellinzona shops used for storing withdrawn engines waiting an uncertain fate. Here in July 1981, we see two crocodiles and one Ae 4/6 waiting to be scrapped... (more)

After Union Pacific began operation of the Moffat Tunnel line in the wake of the Southern Pacific merger, there was a brief era when UP assigned Rio Grande’s GP60s to the Ski Train. On the morning... (more)

Wheeling train 618 crosses Mingo Creek trestle and under I43 as it heads east towards Connellsville, PA.

Owned by the Heart of Dixie Railroad Museum in Calera, Alabama, Birmingham Southern Alco HH900 is the last of it's kind from the 900 series. Nº82 holds the title for being the oldest remaining exa... (more)

Shiny Eagle
Looking just as elegant as the day it rolled out of the Edward G. Budd Company manufacturing plant, the Missouri Pacific Planetarium Dome Coach 892 is back in its origina... (more)

The gathering of Delaware Lackawanna Alcos and MLWs at Bridge 60 are more colorful than the early autumn foliage in the background. Front and center is DL 3007, an M630 originally built for the P... (more)

A CP empty grain train rolls east under a westbound CN freight at Cisco, BC where the two lines swap sides of the Fraser River Canyon south of Lytton, BC. Directional running is in place.

Southern Railway and the 1927 Pullman built "Marco Polo" had close ties especially during the time of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency as FDR would make trips from Washington, D.C. to ... (more)