RJ Corman operates former C&O branches in the New River Gorge as their RJCV West Virginia Line, and they began their day at dawn by taking 100 mty hoppers up the 2.5% grade towards the Contura Ene... (more)

Arriving with a grain train, this CP heads to the inspection workshop for her return trip home. On Ferromex trains, it is already becoming common to see foreign locomotives with protections in the... (more)

The gray gloomy sky's really set the scene for this image. All but four of NJ Transit's ALP-44O, E, and M electric locomotives are seen here on the Lackawanna Cutoff in Port Morris awaiting their ... (more)

A former GN snow dozer blasts west at 40 mph near Ball Club, Minnesota after a heavy snow.

With U.S. Steel closing their Keewatin Taconite iron ore mine/plant due to the current soft demand for steel, the firm is supplying its Granite City mill with ore from its large Minntac mine. Keew... (more)

One of the more bizarre rail incidents I can recall in recent memory occurred in San Pedro yesterday when the PHL daytime Yang Ming Switcher engineer decided to intentionally ram his unit through ... (more)

Time for a game of "chick-hen"? CP 8846 eases into Lansing, IA with a southbound freight appearing to be in for a face off with a formidable biker chick. Fortunately her need to quench h... (more)

Q317-23 pulls onto the approach to the Little Kanawha River bridge as the Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad transfer job leaves the Low Yard to go back to the High Yard.

A misty and cold Saturday morning finds a hint of ground fog at Wisconsin Great Northern's base in Trego, WI.

The NS track crew has cleared up by the old Railroad House Hotel in Lebanon, as the Lackawanna Heritage Unit heads west

An eastbound BNSF coal train passes through the massive cut at East Stokes, Wyoming, on June 21, 2020. In the spring of 1998, BNSF daylighted Sunset Tunnel, also known as the 1,928-foot Tunnel 2 b... (more)

CN has assigned a number of horsepower payback BNSF and UP AC units to northeastern Minnesota on the former DM&IR. Here two BNSF units power a crude (unprocessed) ore train dumping at the Fairlane... (more)

It was the morning of Aug 14, 2020 around 5am or so the southbound massive CSX Q581-13 (Nashville,TN-Hamlet,NC) was making it's journey south on the Western & Atlantic til the train ran 35 cars in... (more)

CN's Santa Train made a stop at the former DM&IR shop and yard complex at Proctor.

As usually happens in big cities, the capital of Chile has places that are not exactly beautiful. EMD SD40-2 with empty intermodal train crosses Mapocho river near Alameda Yard. (It's not a drone ... (more)