As a passenger watches out the rear window, the California Zephyr 5 train gets ready to enter the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel.

The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad #5771 (EMD F9) sits in the sun at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, Colorado. This A/B set used to run into the Colorado Rocky Mountains leading the... (more)

July 28, 1978 - South Amboy, NJ - Having turned a rail with its train, Raritan River SW900 #6 has disconnected from its train and pulled forward to wait for additional help to arrive. We had been ... (more)

UPY 1403 and UPY 1296, a pair of MP15DCs, sit at the port in Granite City. They will eventually be repainted in UP themed colors and renumbered at PHRR 1403 and 1296. The other unit is a GP40 al... (more)

Running coal trains thru Galesburg Yard wasn't too common practice. Once in a while, MofW or traffic issues would force the hand, and the trains would run by the roundhouse and out thru Waterman t... (more)

A outbound freight is headed geographically east and will soon reach the longest (horizontally) straight section of railroad in America. Likely it will head to the former ACL at Pembroke.

FLS/CSXT 1713 is getting a break from switching duties at Riverside Yard in South Baltimore. The former SBD 4613 (GP16) was born (12/1952) as CRR GP7 912, but rebuilt in 05/1981 and redesignated â... (more)

I listed it as Bunge but in fact unit was probably ex-EJ&E, leased from RELCO. This one changed hands many times. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

A pair of matching GP40-2's lead CSX local L316 as it soars over the Cuyahoga River Valley on the Marcy Trestle in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio. This local job is on the westbound return leg of its jour... (more)

Pittsburgh Push: As the morning gets underway in Pittsburgh, manifest train NS 10G begins its journey east of Pittsburgh and onto the NS Conemaugh line, as it leaves the Pittsburgh skyline in the... (more)

Following the BNSF's Clovis Sub, at milepost 688 we happened upon an empty coal train, BNSF E-SPSBTM0-09D, heading back to the Powder River Basin's Black Thunder Mine in Wyoming from Springerville... (more)

Bnsf 7259 has just brough the H-NTWTUL into town. Surprise visitor 2nd out and a long way from home rails.

Our 2nd storm of the season started getting going Friday morning. By the time it ended Saturday night, most of Iowa is in pretty bad shape. It was an impressive storm with a decent amount of wind ... (more)

ACWR 200 crosses the Pee Dee River with the Tillery Hydroelectric Power Plant in the background.

I get the trains back in the 90s weren't the 700 car monsters they are today, but crazy that they would throw 2 SD38's on at Galesburg and run a decent size train it to Northtown with no issues. T... (more)