CSX's Atlantic Coast Line Heritage Locomotive #1871 leads southbound Coal Train C249 through Alabaster, AL.

"CTrail Over CTtransit at Hamilton Ave"

On the afternoon of January 23rd, 2024, Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)/CTrail EMD GP40-3H 6699 leads Metro-North Railroad tra... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 14 working Circle S

It was a photographer's special steam run back in August of 2007, but this little critter was on the end of the train to pull it back to Knoxville. Railroad Pictures Archive tells me she was built... (more)

Phase VII Phase In: At long last, the "blue wave" era has begun to draw to a close with the appearance of P42DC 174. Recently refurbished at Beech Grove, this classic Genesis was repainted ... (more)

CFS 2044 passed Breakeyville

Catch them while you can!

Catch them while you can!

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

CSX train I007, the hot intermodal train from from North Bergen, NJ to Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL, is arriving on the "mail track" to unload its cargo.

An aging pair of CSX AC4400CWs find themselves on the point of train I037 traversing the East/West Connection track at Hamlet passing the Seaboard era depot crossing over the S Line. The Depot was... (more)

PA and PA in PA: An N-scale NKP PA poses next to the real thing at Steamtown.

Former Mid-Atlantic Railroad 958 is on one end of a Carolina Southern passenger excursion back in 2004. Waccamaw Coast Line 943 is on the far end. Both locomotives were former Norfolk & Western EM... (more)

C means it was the third unit of the 347 consist. I wonder where the others are now...

The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.