Retired and still in use passenger cars are at the EXO Maintenance Centre.

The importance of #NeverForget. With Amtrak’s Portal Bridge in the foreground, the Tribute in Light has been turned on for a test on the night of September 5, 2019 prior to their all night displ... (more)

Relics of N&W heritage stand along the Hagerstown District as the Milky Way pivots across the Southern sky on a quiet night in rural Virginia.

After receiving some cosmetic repairs, the Salamanaca Rail Museum's former 1912 Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway depot is looking better than ever. After being taken over by the Baltimore... (more)

I cannot locate any history on this caboose or as to why/how it got on static display just a mere 40 yards away from Southern's Manassas to Harrisonburg main line near the town of Edinburg, VA. Ev... (more)

On January 20, 1984, a predawn fire destroyed the wood pile trestle approaches to the Charles River drawbridge outside Boston's North Station, cutting off access to the station for 15 months while... (more)

82 Station is down near the mine's loadout. Would love to spin up that orange phone and see who answers. Most of the control board operators appear to have a fairly relaxed job. We would not have ... (more)

The Jichangzhan Tower operator stand proudly next to his bomb proof chair, his collection of phones, and the switchboard. The clock on the wall is in Beijing time as our all the clock in China (no... (more)

Trains leave the station in the morning and return 12 hours later just to shortly after leave again for another 12 hours. Working in the crossing shack has to be the least demanding job on this ra... (more)

Access to this tower wasn't easy but glad we did. It is starkly different from the other control towers. This tower over looks the mine tracks at Beiquan Erjing.

Two lines of hoppers cars nicely frame an old locomotive cab laying in the Jichangzhan yard for scrap.

Workers build a small fire to stay warm while they work on the yard tracks at Nanzhan.

The Kengkongzhan Station was the nicest of the ones we visited along the Sandaoling Coal Mine Railway. It was tidy and put away. The control board operator greeted us in and was very friendly. He ... (more)

A 1906 vintage 50 ton ore car, one of the first all steel ore cars built for the Missabe, donated to the Soudan Underground State Park by the DMIR in 1972. This car was one of 4,250 cars of this ... (more)

Derailed cars dot the right of way around Horseshoe Curve after two derailments in the past 4 weeks.