The DP Power on an empty Fruitland coal train slams thru the west end of Cotter minutes from sunset. Cool to see old ex-Rock Island signals, with a pot signal, still in service here. The train is... (more)

The Clinton local came out at 7:30am and their 1st task was to grab some empties from ADM Ag Services along 2nd street. Here the job backs up towards their yard to begin other task for the day. By... (more)

I don't know how long this freight car has been stranded there, but I'm sure it could tell us quite a story about what's been going on along the line since its installation in this place

We've had an Indian Summer of cowl units on Metrolink, as a number of once removed from service F59PHrs are running in regular rotation again.

BNSF 5080 holds a stack/vehicle train along Lake Onalaska at Onalaska, WI. The lake is formed by the confluence of the Black River with the Mississippi River just north of La Crosse, WI. The crew ... (more)

BN 9984 dressed in an early attempt at a BN color scheme for former CB&Q E units idles at a platform in Chicago Union Station with a "Dinky", the nickname often associated with Burlingto... (more)

WC 3012 leads a pair of SD45s on a southbound freight at Theresa Station and is about to cross the Rock River which flows out of Theresa Marsh. The train is operating between North Fond Du Lac and... (more)

As a kid I remember seeing this modern fueling and sanding complex at SP's Roseville Yard in Trains Magazine. It was amazing to finally see it in person, looking more like a launching pad complex ... (more)

A quintet of UP GP38-2s lead by UP 2049 idle the night away at the Argo Yard engine facility in Seattle in the company of a couple NW2s and a few cabooses. In the mid 1970s the slogan "Depend... (more)

Albany. On the March 28, 2022, Amtrak Train 11 (Coast Starlight) stopped at Albany, Oregon with Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Railway Budd built Pullman dome 313 (WEBX 801044), former... (more)

Looks Like Grand Central to Hartford Direct. But not really as MTA Metro-North Railroad Train non-revenue deadhead train 5792 is turning for 5388 on the platform at the Harlem-125 Street St... (more)

Three years after Southern Pacific was acquired by Union Pacific, a westbound manifest rolls down the Shasta Route.

UP 1158, one of the last GP60s still wearing the Cotton Belt paint scheme, rolls through Des Plaines, IL during a light snow shower headed for Proviso with the LJA50 turn.

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit #203 leads a late running westbound Southwest Chief at Oro Grande.

Locomotive 99 234 of the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen has reached the hiking trail named after the German poet Goethe "Goetheweg" at the Brocken mountain and will soon turn into the brockensp... (more)