A remote control unit shuffles gons around in the yard outside US Steel's Granite city works. Most of the mill is very quiet except for this one movement due to USS "banking" most of the mills ope... (more)

Moving GE and Moving America. It's nice to see a caboose on any train for any purpose--the CSX H&W train moves a GE turbine past the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Little Mountain, SC. The... (more)

Southbound Work 1802 arrives at Potter (Mile 12.6 of the Devonshire Subdivision) on September 12th to pick up loaded ballast cars. Potter is a designated location where crushed rock is delivered t... (more)

It's Pronounced Duːkeɪn (or "Doo-Cane")

A Union Railroad empty steel slab train passes through the railroad's Duquesne Yard in, of all places, Duquesne, Pennsylva... (more)

Unusual Visitor

If you spent enough time watching trains in the Allentown, Pennsylvania area, you would see freight cars from almost every railroad in the US and Canada. This is th... (more)

The end of the line. After nearly 150 years, The Greatest Show on Earth will be just a memory archived in the minds of many who have been fortunate enough to experience the Ringling Brothers and B... (more)

One of my favorite Virginia & Truckee locomotives, "J. W. Bowker" is a 1875 product of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co. Currently on display beneath the train shed of the reconstructed Central Pacif... (more)

BNSF’s Cody local passes through Garland, Wyoming, on June 24, 2016. The four-car train is led by a pair of former Burlington Northern EMD SD70MACs and trailed by BN caboose No. 12540, and is he... (more)

After a long wait by this photographer in Gallitzin, the NS Safety train finally emerged from the West portal of the Allegheny Tunnel. As a career firefighter this train is one of my favorites. On... (more)

The NS Safety train is on a layover in Altoona before it proceeds West to Cresson for a weekend class.

"Thomas"

Thomas is prepared for service at Strasburg several days ahead of a "Day Out With Thomas" weekend. Long before being modified by Strasburg in 1998, Thomas was once Brooklyn Eastern District Termin... (more)

PNFF-12 with its duo of SD50s exits the west portal of the Tamaqua Tunnel with a nice coating of snow covering the landscape.

“Long Gone”
Long gone are the CPLs, cabin cars, front runners, and the friendly wave. With RF&P GP40-2 146 plus three on the head end, Chessie System/C&O extended vision caboose (90)... (more)