Due to a derailment and severe flooding in Baltimore, some reroutes were in order, including this R138 which had gone east previously. R138 heads west being rerouted during sunrise through foggy ... (more)

Starry, starry night...

Bound for Rusk, Texas, 2-8-2 No. 30 makes a brief station stop at Maydelle on a clear and starry night. Follow Railroad: Texas State Railroad
Locomotive: Steam 2-8-2
Location: Maydelle, Texas, USA
Locomotive #: TSRR 30
Train ID: Lerro Charter
Photo Date: April 28, 2019

A 99.8 second exposure at "0419 in the AM" behind the Pennsylvania position lights mounted on Jamestown Road in Portage, PA. A couple weeks later, on June 10th, these signals were removed from ser... (more)

Iowa Interstate’s Rock Island heritage unit passes the 1893-built Rock Island/ Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad's Union Depot in Grinnell, IA.

Sunset fades away over desolate northern Kansas as a Kyle westbound wanders across the prarie with a long train for Limon, Colorado in tow. The classic Southern Pacific tunnel motors are reflecte... (more)

'Merica and Trains.

I hired out on the Milwaukee Road with Chief Dispatcher Harry Martin two months before I graduated high school in Milwaukee back in the mid-60's......broke in as a Telegraph Opr. Towerman/Leverman... (more)

Quite possibly falling into the top ten sunsets that I have ever seen, a string of midwestern supercells loom over the old Naperville, CB&Q depot. Being out later on a Wednesday afternoon, althoug... (more)

It is about 3:00 in the morning, and after two southbound and one northbound KCS trains have passed through Page siding, the quiet time gave us a moment to look up and gaze at the amazing Milky Wa... (more)

It is about 2:00 in the morning as a northbound KCS coal train, led by Union Pacific 8752, sits in the siding at Page. The train was stopped for a couple hours waiting for two southbound KCS trai... (more)

As a series of severe thunderstorms build over the Colorado Front Range, BNSF 8253 leads the Denver, CO to Lincoln, NE manifest east through the small town of Roggen, CO on June 17th, 2019.

The CP business train goes for a swim as it heads north on the Marquette Sub and along the flooded Mississippi River.

With the last light of the day hanging on, Norfolk Southern train 955, a deadhead move of their Office Car Special makes their way north through City Yard in Knoxville as they make the journey to ... (more)

During the golden hour on a late winter afternoon, billboards and buildings provide the backdrop for this Long Island Rail Road EMD DE30AC, leading its train out of Long Island City yard to its fi... (more)