A trio of U23B's releases a massive plume of smoke as the train wades through the sea of grass in downtown Claxton. Sadly this scene will soon be gone with the relocation of the track to make way ... (more)

General Belgrano Railroad's ALCo. RSD35 #6762 is about to finish its ride at the back of a freight train entering Alta Córdoba Station by the west, with Alta Córdoba West Tower in the background... (more)

Dakota Southern President Alex Huff shovels out a grade crossing as the 4427 makes a rare move on this lightly used line.

Suffering from decades of deferred maintenance the Maumee & Western slowly rolls along their dilapidated mainline east of Okolona leaning so far at times I'm amazed the whole train didn't tip over... (more)

While mainline railfanning is fun in its own right, from time to time I like to follow a branchline local. UP's LJL41 (based out of Provo) heads west along the former D&RGW Tintic Branch at milepo... (more)

GNRR 8705 backs into the overgrown siding at Gober to pick up a couple of grain cars to take south.

The 1202 was moving center-beams to storage at Knight's Siding. Spring blossoms are finally beginning to appear on the trees.

The vast flat coastal farmland stretches out in all directions as a tiny local rocks and rolls out the 'Coastal's Belhaven branch on old overgrown trackage with 2 cars of lime headed for farmers a... (more)

The only unit of this type on the roster and hard to find in MS anywhere, these were usually down in the industrial areas.

Sumpter & Choctaw 44-ton #501 and caboose #1000 at Bellamy, AL || May 1972

Vegetation control was never a top priority on Southern's Manassas-Harrisonburg Branch. At times it seemed like the weed spray train made its appearance about the same time as the first frost in ... (more)

Looking as if she needs some repair, the original EMD GP20 demonstrator unit sits shut down in LaSalle.

Where on earth can you find three F9's A-B-A pulling 106 empty coal cars? Disco, IL! On a rare move to pull cars from storage, the newly added B unit makes this trio perfect, as they climb out of ... (more)

Departing Lamy, the “mixed” trundles along some weed grown and uneven track towards Santa Fe. It’s hard to image that this was once the busy connection to Santa Fe’s namesake city. At the ... (more)

Backyard Plaything?! - While exploring the remains of the old Boston and Maine Hillsboro Branch one late summer day I was quite surprised to find this sitting seemingly in someone's backyar... (more)