Buttheads had no place after SBD came along so all these are going, mostly to scrap. A sad transition for me. When I was in college and had no money I spent many weekend afternoons watching them... (more)

Half of the entire Mount Vernon Terminal Railway can be seen in this photo. MVT primarily stores tank cars for the local refineries and offloads plastic pellets for a Boeing supplier. To the righ... (more)

The PA finally arrived in Scranton Saturday, ending its' journey across from Oregon. It was be displayed in the turntable area at Steamtown, at least until after Railfest in June. Back on home ra... (more)

Slowly reentering civilization, the Logan Local claws up the 2.2% grade as it crosses over the first of two ancient wooden trestles on the last part of the trip to Harrison. Note the "repairs... (more)

Photographed on September 28, 1961 from the Roosevelt Avenue bridge two NYC E8's 4092 and 4095 idle at Chicago's La Salle Street Station waiting for its next assignment. The E8 4092 was experim... (more)

Now it's 400 Feet Straight Down*

Easing around the famed Horseshoe Curve on the Denver and Rio Grande Western's Silverton Branch we catch K37 493 rounding out the bend from Roc... (more)

AT&SF train number 6, the Colorado Express, is seen north of Castle Rock on June 26th 1932. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Fifteen eastbound locomotives. Numbers are UP 3852, 4655, 4209, 4182, 4963, 4623, 4111, 4421, 7140, 4885, 4468, 5155, 4112, 4165, & 4400.

Lightning Striped. The third MTA Metro-North Railroad 40th Anniversary "heritage unit" was outshopped from North White Plains on the night of Tuesday November 7, 2023. The lightni... (more)

A perfectly matched A-B-A set of NYC lightning stripes FA's, hustled westbound on track 3 with a coal train at Lyons, N.Y. on October 17, 1956. Photo by David R. Connor, from my collection. ... (more)

One Empty Gondola is shoved to Friedland Industrys on Lansing's Old Town Spur. The ADBF 1751, Formerly the GTW 4545, shoves narrowly between Pablo's Mexican Restaurant and Odd Nodd Art supply a... (more)

Beech Mountain RR leased SW1500 ex CSX 1118 runs light over the lower submarine bridge returning to the loadout for its final cut of cars.

The evening rush hour is in full swing while the crew of Conrail ME-2 waits in the clear on the Millstone Industrial Track just west of Jersey Avenue. Freshly repainted caboose CR 22137 made its ... (more)

The Pocono turn is almost complete with their work swapping lumber loads at Bestway lumber in Cresco and will continue their journey east as fall color explodes around them.

Railroad zip ties
Used to keep the air hoses together during transit, heavy-duty zip ties litter the tracks over the hump where cars are separated while being classified at East Hump, in... (more)