Nearly three years after the pair were delivered by builder Alco, wearing the Daylight paint, the St. Louis Southwestern's PA's 300 and 301 were well established at work in the Lone Star state... (more)

An Amtrak requalification run is crossing Route 116, with 50th anniversary unit AMTK 108 providing some colour on an overcast morning. In the background, CN 526 with CN 4808 & CN 4904 work Southwa... (more)

Yellow Nose Pair On A Sunny Morning. On August 31, 2022, a pair of dual mode powered MTA LIRR trains with LI 504 and 514 (DM30AC, EMD, 1999) met in Middle Village, Queens, New York with the Manhat... (more)

Fredericksburg Line train 307 heads south into Virginia at dusk as they pass through RO.

An empty ballast train passing the bridge at 244 km.This railway line is not in operation since 2019,thanks to the new high spped line.

The off and on downpours are presently very much on as a northbound Regional heads through Metuchen on a miserable Veterans' Day afternoon.

Amtrak 92 crosses the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg on a cold winter afternoon.

A couple of recently acquired second-hand assets lead a 4 car empty ballast slot consist into The Lakehead and are about to knock down the signal for the Port Arthur diamond with the CN Kashabowie... (more)

CP 1400 leaving Ermida.

“Susky Crossing”
Amtrak 155(7), a NYP-WAS Northeast Regional, led by ACS-64 AMTK 638, sprints [pun intended] across the “Susquehanna River Movable Bridge” into Havre de Grace, MD... (more)

The legendary photographer Otto Perry captured this AT&SF 17 car mail train, number 8, doing 50 MPH at Bernalillo New Mexico on September 20th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

As darkness settles in on the north country blanketed in snow, ONR's plow extra clamours across the Beaver Creek trestle breaking the absolute silence for a brief moment as it hustles back to Nort... (more)

Amtrak's Cardinal skirts the New River, running east through the picturesque New River Gorge on a cloudless late winter day.

Shoving Southbound to New York.

Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr (train no. 5) has just exited the first of 29 different tunnels on the Eastern side of the Divide and approaches Plainview, CO on their way west