“The Patriot”
This bright paint scheme and Colorado & Wyoming Railway No. 102 have quite the history to tell. The C&W was formed in 1899 as a subsidiary of Colorado Fuel & Iron Corpo... (more)

After a trip down the Croghan branch, the crew of the return leg of the Walterboro-Bennett Yard turn has reassembled their train in the mainline siding. When the air is up, they will head down th... (more)

A crew uses a steam-powered wrecker to clean-up a minor derailment just off North Court Street.

As the railroads that would become Family Lines became more closely coordinated, two pairs of run-through trains were initiated in 1973 that utilized the West Point Route (A&WP and WRofA) between ... (more)

C&LC 105 was delivered to Union Pacific in February 1953.

A January afternoon finds an Erie Lackawanna GP7 on the roundhouse lead at Bangor, Pennsylvania. Built in 1952 as Erie 1404, the EMD road switcher has about five years of service left.

WICT 616 has picked up a string of coal cars and is about to depart Waukesha, WI for the slow trip to Madison on a nice Winter day in January of 1989. This section of ex-MILW track along Hwy 164 (... (more)

One of the locals operating out of Bennett Yard is almost home as it passes the Amtrak/SCL station just north of the Rivers Avenue bridge.

585's crew has run to Croghan and back with 810. Now they will couple up to the B23-7, fetch their train out of the siding along the main, then head for Walterboro.

Back in the 1970s SCL still operated a branch from the ex-ACL main at John's Island to Croghan, a tiny yard with a couple customers directly across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston. It w... (more)

Back in the 1970s SCL still operated a branch from the ex-ACL main at John's Island to Croghan, a tiny yard with a couple customers directly across the Ashley River from downtown Charleston. It w... (more)

Engineer Jim Dundon, Fireman Carl Spencer and Brakeman Jimmy Dolliver on the Norwich local, switching Standard Brand Dog Foods factory in Sherburne, NY. The boxcar shown was full of Agway Big Red ... (more)

It's late and veteran engineer Brent Thomson slowly bring the Tennessee Central "Murder Mystery & Music Special" back from Watertown, TN through the quite community of Lebanon, TN bound... (more)

Working for closely affiliated company Western Railway of Alabama, Georgia Railroad GP7 1019 switches industry tracks almost in the shadow of downtown.

Mixed train 31 - the withered remains of Georgia Railroad's once healthy general freight business to Macon - sits beside the new source of vitality for the branch. The unit trains of Kentucky coa... (more)