An eastbound BNSF freight passes the old stock pens and loaders at Toston, Montana, on July 1, 2018. The now rustic facility has dual loading shoots that appear to be spaced to load two 40-foot st... (more)

On my way to work I was lucky to catch a Herzog ballast train dropping ballast on the NS Wabash line located on the eastern edge of the NS Illinois Division, the Lafayette District. The train is s... (more)

Under the rebuilt interchange. The Pointe St-Charles Switcher is shoving a single boxcar towards the Kruger plant as it passes over the Notre-Dame Street crossing and underneath the recentl... (more)

NYC unit? CSXT 6247 has left the Transflo facility in Beauharnois at the start of CSXT B786's shift as it heads towards the main line. Underneath the side window is a logo of some kind sayi... (more)

After making its first test run to Silverton since converting to burn oil, #480 crosses the Animas River on its return trip to Durango

On this very special day, HRRC 3600 was hitched to caboose 654 in the rail yard. While I had come down to chase the NX13 job I noticed the caboose and GP35...and later found out that a dear frien... (more)

Led by EMD SD70MACe No. 9749, a westbound BNSF manifest freight curves though the big cut on double track between Granite and Athol, Idaho, on February 4, 2021.

SP 18 doubleheads with 493 on the first Silverton revenue trip in more than a year.

Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 in a more)

The crew of the long-range local backs down a city street to deliver a load of lumber. That C39-8 and ex-N&W C36-7 seem downright exotic now.

Trading the snow for humidity. You might think this former Conrail unit is sitting in the weeds waiting for scrap but you would be wrong. This is one of the handful of old GE Dash 7 locomotives ... (more)

A different angle. Inspired by seeing Mitch Goldman's beautiful pan today, I wanted to post mine of basically the same moment, with a different lens and angle. Mine is 1/25. The zoom kind of fo... (more)

On its last day prior to going in for its 1,472 day inspection, Southern California Railway Museum's Prairie locomotive VC #2 shoves its train south to end of track prior to heading north for what... (more)

Amtrak New Haven-Springfield Shuttle Train 474 has P42DC Midnight Blue 100 as motive power passing thru Wallingford viewed from the John Street overpass. The Midnight Blue scheme is one of six co... (more)

Tank Creek is running strong with spring melt as #473 hauls the Cascade Canyon Express back to Durango.