The A&W heads into Sanford for a morning of switching. The A&W is an "original" shortline being chartered in the late 1890s to run about 25 miles from Sanford to Lillington NC. In the mo... (more)

Its trip to Salina from the Colorado mainline at Gypsum almost over, a very short local crosses the through truss bridge over the Smoky Hill River. For many years MP ran scheduled local freights ... (more)

San Manuel Morning

After two days of railfanning the Copper Basin we headed down to San Manuel on good authority that the SMARRCO would be running a train up to the interchange. ... (more)

Southern 401, a 2-8-0 consolidation type, and a product of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, is seen here crossing the flooded Camp Creek. As some of you may recall, it was a beautiful summer in the M... (more)

A Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific transfer run heads upgrade from downtown Duluth to its west Duluth yard located on the hill side below Missabe's Proctor Hill climb. GP38-2s 5850 and 5853 were acquire... (more)

The M&B doesn't get much attention, and what it does get often seems focused on the west end of this bridge, which is a steel through-truss span over the main channel of the Black Warrior River. I... (more)

A freight train powered by Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 crosses the trestle over Snake Creek at Charleston, Utah, on a winter photo freight operated by Heber Valley Railroad on February 7, 2006.

HMCR's northbound turn rolls across Pinhook Creek at sunset with a ex-Southern B23-7 running long-end forward leading the way.

M338 departed Waterloo at 12:45, for the daily trip to Kirk Yard near Gary, IN. Most days the train is over 10,000 feet or 14,500 tons, so the train then run as a distributed power train. Today th... (more)

G42 powers across the Monbulk Creek trestle bridge, with a regular service from Belgrave to Lakeside. The Victorian Railways received a pair of these 2'6" gauge Garratts from Beyer Peacock in... (more)

The Lexington Dinner Train is returning from Versailles with a murder mystery trip on the LL Branch. This line has several wooden trestles and the one at Elkchester seemed like a good choice to a... (more)

Cutting through the morning fog, Canadian National 324 creeps across the trestle in East Alburgh Vermont

Slide scan of SCTR train with SCTR #152 leading heads south over one of the big Trestles just south of Centerville, TN with 3 engs and 21 woodchip cars, The woodchip business is gone and the SCTR ... (more)

Passing over one of the classic trestle bridges that call the Surfline home, Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner #562 is only 30 minutes away from its final destination of Downtown San Diego. This view can... (more)