Quitting cold Turkey

A derailment brought an abrupt end to a week's steam charter in Turkey which damaged engine, tender, cars and track. Fortunately, it was the last afternoo... (more)

Amtrak passengers board the City of New Orleans at Homewood.

Midnight in Sweden. The station from Nora is beautifully located near the lake. The very first normal gauge railway in Sweden opened in 1856 between Nora and Ervalla.

Went out to get a pic of the searchlights and got an added backdrop

Salida was once a railroad town, where Rio Grande had a large dual gauge yard, two roundhouses, company hospital and many other functions necessary for a busy division point. Narrow gauge trains f... (more)

Rain at 2am skies are starting to clear after a day of rain. Taken from the perch at Denver's Union Station. I took this last April and that is the Winter Park Ski Train that is in the picture not... (more)

Welcome to Chattanooga...railroad closed! On July 29-30, 2018, a small army of CSX, NS, and contract crews were given a complete 48-hour shutdown of the 23rd Interlocking through which CSX's W&A ... (more)

Looking toward the east switch of Minturn siding shows an impediment to any possible train movements over Union Pacific’s railbanked Tennessee Pass route on June 4, 2018. In early March 2014, a ... (more)

Pennsylvania Railroad Middle Division PT 174 Horningford, Pennsylvania

A Loram rail grinder works its way down the main line at Woodford, CA, taking off the top thin layer of the rail head and leaving a criss-cross diamond pattern there after it passes. The sparks fr... (more)

GaiaMother Tree is a monumental work of art of the brasilian artist Ernesto Neto. This colorful, hand-knotted sculpture made of colorful cotton ribbons extends up to the 20-meter-high ceiling of t... (more)

In the workshop of the Mongolian Railway (MTZ) at Ulaanbaatar.

KY Junction Bessemer and Lake Erie R.R. Greenville, PA

Traditions: A family of passengers waiting for Amtrak's northbound Crescent to arrive, stand amongst the 1910 Southern Railway depot, which is still there to serve its purpose of acc... (more)

Built in 1881 by Italian stonemasons for the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railway as part of the facilities needed for their division point of Como, Colorado. The original six-stall roundhouse eve... (more)