Bandits
After a bankruptcy and long wait for a savior through merger, Milwaukee Road’s physical plant was not the best. This included the weathered paint on its locomotives. New owner ... (more)

Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 whistles as it meets an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe double-stack train at Casa Blanca, four miles west of the Riverside Amtrak/Metrolink station. The steam engine i... (more)

Passing two horses and a resting longhorn on its way to switching customers on the Fifth Subdivision, Montana Rail Link’s 844 local clatters through Three Forks, Montana, on October 11, 2023. Lo... (more)

A modest five car train is dwarfed by the Joso Bridge over the Snake River, Union Pacific's largest, in southeast Washington. It's been a dry summer and the sun is slightly muted by the smoke from... (more)

As a BNSF coal empty cruises over Logan Hill, another BNSF coal load heads downgrade toward Bill with a pair of DPU locomotives on the rear. The top of Logan hill is near, if not at, the road over... (more)

Above average temperatures and elevated humidity lay along the Levisa Fork as Shelby-bound CSX M653 approaches GC Cabin on CSX's ex-Chesapeake & Ohio Big Sandy Subdivision.

Monon Shops, Lafayette, IN, 08/02/59. Original Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown, John E. Troxler collection.

CSX 1850 sporting the Louisville and Nashville heritage scheme as they depart on M492-26.

National Locomotive's rebuilt former Norfolk & Western RS36 #1800 sits at the shops that NALCO shared with the Morristown & Erie Railroad. This was to be the first in a group of RS11 and RS36 rebu... (more)

The North Reading Fast Freight "America's Freight Train" pulls North by the Reading & Northern Shops in Port Clinton Pennsylvania. The RBMN 3059 leads a five unit consist pulling by the ... (more)

Stack over Two Medicine
It’s autumn, but snow has already coated the jagged peaks in Glacier National Park. On October 8, 2018, a BNSF stack train crosses the oft-photographed Two Med... (more)

A California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society excursion train is seen leaving Reno on December 1st 1957. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

Katy was desperate for motive power when they got some KCC high cab units. When chopping the cab and hood they got it almost right but somewhat lower than normal. Other units were repainted but ... (more)

"Bennett Scenic Journey" train from Skagway, AK, has crossed the US-Canada border and arrived at Fraser, BC, for border immigration checks. While waiting, I see another train pulls in ri... (more)