An icon of American railroading sits on the north end of a regional passenger service under Chicago Union Station.

Amtrak 503 passes Oxnard yard, in the siding to meet Metrolink.

YR-1 (St Johnsbury, VT to Portland, ME) is pictured at Fabyan, New Hampshire. U18B #408 (Battle of the Bagaduce), is in the company of GP38-2s 256 & 251. The tracks crossing in front of YR-1 are t... (more)

The cold night air is thick with fog, as WP 913 is about to hook up to the Polar Express train for another trip.

Three Burlington Northern GE C30-7s smoke it up at Tamora, Nebraska, on the morning of July 2, 1988. The train held the main for a meet, and is now bringing the coal loads back into motion, while ... (more)

A westbound CP coal train has the mainline at Yale siding in the lower Fraser River canyon. The train is headed for Roberts Bank, BC with export coal.

BN 6834, a SD40-2, is eastbound just exiting the snowshed that surrounds the east portal of tunnel 4. This train is climbing the west side of Stampede Pass and will soon enter Stampede tunnel.

Last Train Home. Amtrak 406 brings up the markers of train 689, the last Downeaster back to Portland. The train is seen here pulling out of the Woburn station stop. It will... (more)

St. Louis-bound auto train.

Skirting the Puget Sound shoreline for roughly 30 miles between Everett and Seattle this Burlington Northern westbound freight will momentarily pass through the waterfront town of Edmonds, WA with... (more)

Three Tidewater bound coal trains wait to depart Roanoke on a rain slick August 1983 night. Coal loads from Roanoke follow the gentle profile of the Virginian, avoiding Blue Ridge grade. Visible ... (more)

Metro North's assigned Croton Harmon Shop switcher makes it's way north up the Upper Hudson Line to Poughkeepsie to pick up a problematic "bomb" set. The geep later brought down seven shoreliners ... (more)

After a morning trip up the branch to Lafayette, 2536 - still in classy Southern Railway colors - finishes up in Opelika's small yard.

The smells, the sights and the fell. This is inside Strasburg Railroads main steam shop where they keep all there steam engines. When I first walked in it was like a kid in a candy store seeing th... (more)