There was a rare sight in Wyoming as the Union Pacific called on the Rotary UP 900082 to go fight the snow drifts at Rawlings, Wyoming, which has shut down transcon rail traffic for three days. T... (more)

I always wanted to watch these working but most I've were dead. Originally B&O, ex C&O. Photo by Dave Petke, from my collection.

Couldn't you find a shorter buffer car? Loaded oils follow the river along the Washington Oregon state line, then return empty over Stevens Pass. This one is climbing the one percent grade of th... (more)

I was about to give up on ever seeing a three porthole Phase I F3 when we spotted this thing. Last one also.

Aiken 4201 and 4202 wait for the next call to duty at their small yard in Aiken, South Carolina.

After meeting a northbound this coal train has gotten a light at the south end of double track.

I wasn't prepared for the trolley situation in San Francisco. I was there for work and surprised that there were vintage PCCs running right outside my hotel. Here's one of them.

I think I can, I think I can...... CNW 4287 leads a UP C40-8 in this unusual consist about to cross Drexel Avenue in Oak Creek on CNW's New Line. Also of note are the auto/truck frames from A.O. S... (more)

While large swaths of New England got dumped on with a foot of snow in some places, Connecticut, at least in the lower elevations, didn't even get a dusting. The rain, followed by snow which melte... (more)

NS SD40E #6313 leads local Train G87 back north to Carrollton from Senoia as they pass an abandoned Coaling Tower here at Raymond, GA.

Side shot of BNSF 9604 at 1/80s ISO 100

SP 5100, a GE 70 tonner, was built in March 1949 and is seen here outside the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR. The railroad originally acquired about 20 of these switch engines from Ge... (more)

A lot of traffic near the station Köln Messe/Deutz seen from the panorama deck of the building Köln Triangle: in the middle National-Express, below ICE from DB and in the background two DB-local... (more)

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Jordan Spreader AX-41 crosses over the soon-to-be demolished Rio Grande bridge just west of Leyden, Colorado.

Out in the country just north of town a southbound train rolls through.