The race is on!! With both trains speeding towards a crew change at Kamloops, CP's Vancouver-Toronto hotshot 100-22 is seen at left while CN's Vancouver-Edmonton M31051 21 is seen at right. They'r... (more)

CN locomotive 2661 signaled the start of a mock collision staged at a crossing in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 28. The scenario took place on the first day of Operation Lifesaver Rail Safety Awaren... (more)

Truck was Stuck due to Landing Gear caught on Crossing

Savannah & Atlanta 1065, Norfolk Southern's tenth heritage unit, is posed fresh out of the Progress paint shop in Muncie. Casey Thomason photo, copyright Norfolk Southern Corporation. For more i... (more)

C&O #490: One of my all time favorite engines - built by ALCO in 1926 as a Pacific, the C&O rebuilt this engine as a streamlined Hudson in 1946 for "Chessie" service, the C&O’s hope for... (more)

These 7 BNSF engines sure have a way of brightening up a winter landscape. This train is departing the bowels of Glenwood Canyon and making way for Denver.

Kodachrome II, Yashica TL

A railfan takes video of 11V with three EMD leaders as it heads west through the Cassandra Railroad Overlook as the sun burns off the morning fog.

Northbound empty Canpotex, Inc. (Potash) train on UP's Ayer Sub.

Aftermath of vandals putting ties on the tracks. That's the power off Q226 in the background pulling two rerailed cars west.

Spring thaw means Mississippi River flooding in downtown Davenport. The CP will run trains through the floodwaters for as long as they can, until the River gets too high. Another engine was on the... (more)

NS train D45 got an early start out of Peoria this morning but didn't make it too far before hitting this gravel truck and then wedging it under the TP&W viaduct at Farmdale. The train continued ... (more)

The first three units from the Longmont Turn seen here after the Turn derailed the night before. BNSF 8105 didn't fall completely over, but BNSF 9801 (SD70MAC) and BNSF 143 (GP60M) weren't so luck... (more)

Looking more like a model locomotive, the last operating Union Pacific Centennial DD40X, UP 6936 East, is seen in a pan shot from an ice covered farm road just east of Round Grove, Illinois on Feb... (more)

70 MPH pace pho... (more)