In early 1980 the MBTA evaluated a Leyland railbus from England as a possible acquisition for off-peak service on lightly traveled lines. Here the British import poses in front of Amtrak's Attlebo... (more)

Meter gauge steam shed

IR's 111 years old functional meter gauge steam shed at Mettupalayam with X Class 0-8-2T locos and semaphore signals en route

From the bluff high above the Overland Route, the westbound Big Boy struts across the Wyoming plains for the first time in over half a century.

A trio of Union Pacific coal trains cross Logan Hill, north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 23, 2018. Even with the decline of coal, traffic on this four-track segment of the Orin Line in Powder River B... (more)

Penn Central F7A 721, former Rio Grande 5721. PC bought 10 D&RGW F units, F7A 5721 & 5754 and F7B 5712 & 5733 were mechanically sound and kept for service. The other units were sent to EMD for t... (more)

Thunder in the canyon. After completing her epic journey to Ogden for the Spike 150 celebration, UP Locomotives 4014 and 844 take their special train back east, through Echo Canyon on the r... (more)

Southern Pacific GE U33C 8684 and 8670 at a scrap yard in Fort Worth, Texas.

CKIN 815 crosses over the NS at Thomaston, Indiana as it prepares to pick up and drop off cars. This is the former diamond of the PM and NKP.

Ed Dickens and Bruce Kirk posing in front of UP 4014. Thank you Ed and the rest of the team for bringing to life a Big Boy that I has been a dream of mine and others to see run. Also thanks to Un... (more)

The Union Pacific steam special is seen here about 5 miles south of Point of Rocks after passing the Black Butte Mine in the far distance. This is one of the few North/South oriented stretches of ... (more)

As dawn breaks, Amtrak's northbound Montrealer rolls into the station at White River Junction, VT, on its overnight trip from Washington to Montreal. The Central Vermont crew waiting on the platfo... (more)

Big Boy charges up Peru Hill eastbound.

f/8 and be there. UP 4014 has been bedded down in the Evanston, Wyoming Yard and the crew is gone for the night. Gone as well are most of the local sightseers, who mobbed this train from t... (more)

In January of 1985, an unlikely scenario unfolded as steam returned to coal train service on the Chesapeake & Ohio main line. Entrepreneur and locomotive owner Ross Rowland headed American Coal En... (more)