Mid-days on the busy Metro-North Railroad are when things settle down to a dull roar when compared to rush hour. Passenger loadings are lighter, and trains operate with less frequency - although ... (more)

Canadian Pacific Railway SD30C-ECO 5044 was built by General Motors Diesel as CP SD40-2 5729 in October 0975. It was rebuilt by Bombardier Transportation (in Ciudad Sahagún, Hidalgo, México) in... (more)

In 1968, work was underway to build the Foothill Freeway (Interstate 210) through Pasadena and Arcadia (necessitating the removal of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's depot in Santa Anita, ... (more)

Chicago Metra commuter train 1245 makes its stop at the carrier's Harlem Avenue Station as the sun sets. METX F40PHM-2 195 is pulling seven gallery cars from downtown Chicago (visible by the Will... (more)

CPKC Railway train 113, an intermodal train heading from Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia, is westbound on CPKC's Laggan Subdivision and passing the Lafarge Exshaw Cement Plant (... (more)

The Winter of 1981 was a dry one, as evidenced by the lack of greenery in the Tehachapi Mountains as an eastbound Santa Fe freights winds through Cable, location of one of the many passing sidings... (more)

San Joaquin Valley Railroad GP38-2 3818, looking a bit ragged due to all the graffiti adorning it, was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in November 1973 as Colorado & Western 2001. ... (more)

The switchman riding on Iowa Traction Railway Company 50-Ton Steeplecab 50 hops off the moving train in the classic style, in use for over one-hundred years before "3-Point Safety Contact&quo... (more)

Chicago Metra train 1235 has just departed downtown Chicago’s Union Station, passing the Metra yard to its right, and the Amtrak yard to its left, just after passing under the Roosevelt Road bri... (more)

Weirton, West Virginia, is home to ArcelorMittal's National Steel Corporation/Weirton Steel Division. Weirton Steel (WSX) SW1500 306 is the former Whitestone Supply (WSTX) 306, former Pittsburgh ... (more)

Rounding the curve into Bealville as it climbs over the Tehachapi Mountains, BNSF train Z-NBYWSP1-10U (UPS/LTL Intermodal Train; North Bay CA to Willow Springs IL) is slowing for a stop … even ... (more)

Constructed in April 2016 by General Motors Electro-Motive Division as Union Pacific SD70ACe 9026, the next year this locomotive was chosen by UP to be repainted and renumbered to UP 1943 as the c... (more)

Shuffling autoracks in Pacific Harbor Line's Pier B Yard is PHL MP20C-3 73. Built by MotivePower Inc. from a former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe SD45 (ATSF 5356, ATSF 1806, originally ATSF 1806), t... (more)

Heading to Pacific Harbor Line's Pier B Yard is PHL PR30C 40. This locomotive was built by Progress Rail using the former Canadian Pacific SD40-2 5819 as a starting point, originally numbered PRL... (more)

BNSF Railway Yard Job Y-BAK2071-08G switches cars in the Bakersfield Yard. BNSF Dash 8-40BW 533, seen on the eastern end of the yard, is the former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe 533, purchased for t... (more)