Recently rebuilt by the shops at Silvis, Rock Island GP7R 4500 leads a westbound under the cantilever signal bridge guarding eastbound movements over Burlington Northern's Galesburg to Savanna mai... (more)

A Santa Fe 199 train accelerates out of Stockton.

Gotta love those ex NYC signals! Amtrak's westbound Maple Leaf pulls into the station in Depew with one of the few P40s still active on the roster.

The single GP40-2 in charge of FEC local 915 is in the process of running around its train at Palm Bay siding. The crew has had a busy morning switching industries and also doing a little ballast... (more)

With the Conrail heritage unit on the point, freight train 170 heads east through the town of Dublin as it passes the classic N&W CPL's at Wysor.

Conway to Bellevue freight train 15K heads west under the NYC signal bridge at MP 195 with the Wabash heritage unit on the point.

SOO 6024 and a string of auto racks roll along the IHB and towards Gibson yard in East Chicago, IN.

A westbound NJT train is braking for its stop at the Bridgewater station on the Raritan Line as a snow squall moves in.

A BNSF garbage train diverges at the twilight hour.

I started devouring Lucius Beebe books in the 1950's. I saw his "Burning of Rome" smoke plumes and thought that was how steam locomotives always looked. Boy, did I ever want to see that! Flash for... (more)

The holiday morning brought a lengthy northbound manifest through Delaware. This location is the former site of a diamond between the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) and the Cleveland Cincinnati... (more)

Class J 611 bites into the Blue Ridge Grade eastbound at Webster Va

The 611 splits the intermediate signals at Montvale as it leads an NS '21st Century Steam' excursion from Roanoke to Lynchburg.

Vermont Rail System's Bellows Falls switcher, symbol DASW, awaits the passage of a late-running New England Central Railroad train #324-05 that is passing over the Bellows Falls diamond with Conne... (more)

As the sun lights up the iconic face of N&W CPL's, N&W J Class 611 splits the intermediate signals at Montvale, Virginia as NS 958 makes it's way eastbound to Lynchburg.