Freight cars begin to get offloaded from the barge and into Greenville Yard. There is a method to unloading; one string at a time, taking four cars off one of the side tracks first, before taking... (more)

EMD demonstrators are testing on Rio Grande's Craig Branch as they bring a coal train from Axial to the Drake Power Plant in Colorado Springs through the loops at Crater, CO. Scanned from a Kodach... (more)

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On a rainy October 23, 1990, a westbound CSX freight heads down the Shenandoah Subdivision over a trestle at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Trailing lead GP40-2 No. 6439 is a road s... (more)

Q135 is photographed from the West End Bridge with the Pittsburgh skyline in the background.

Two coal trains are side by side at South Side in Pittsburgh on Conrail's Mon Line.

An eastbound manifest notches up out of the sag of Darling with the sun setting behind the San Fransisco Peaks.

The lowly PRR local works past the depot in Riverside on the last day of the Pennsylvania Railroad, tomorrow it's "Penn Central".

On the last day of PRR's corporate existence, John is photographing what he can of his beloved PRR. That meant aiming his camera at the PRR environs in Riverside, N.J., including the keystone sign... (more)

A Family Lines caboose brings up the rear of a "funeral train" full of former L&N and SCL first-generation diesels. These locomotives are headed west on the IHB and are most likely boun... (more)

For the first time in many months, ex ATSF CF7 #2627 returns to service on the Clinton Terminal, hauling a cut of scrap gons into Clinton. This engine had been "deadlined" for months pri... (more)

Between the 450 m long Wiesen I tunnel and the 969 m long Bärentritt tunnel on the line from Filisur to Davos, there is a gap of only few more then 10 meter, where the passengers have a glimps of... (more)

That others may live..... Running a fleet of 90+ year-old steam engines that have to work just as hard each day as they ever did back in the steam era is a very difficult endeavor to sustai... (more)

No HEP (head-end power 480-v.) here in GN’s Seattle coach yard where the cars are hooked to ground steam on rainy April 9, 1970 The Big Sky Blue didn’t last long as the merger creating Burlin... (more)

Salvage company Carney & Hancock workers transload a damaged FGDA covered hopper, moving the corn from the railcar to truck. This was in RI's Short Line Yard in Des Moines, IA back in the summer ... (more)

C&K Scrap Metal is scrapping M&E RS11 7215 and C424 4216 at the railroad's Morristown yard. Components of the 7215 are awaiting movement to C&K's Newark processing facility.