M583 eases down the Southern slope of Cumberland Mountain with a veteran widecab GE leading the charge.

McCloud 2-6-2 #25 steams on for the Oregon Coast Scenic Railway as it departs Garibaldi on a typical pacific northwest afternoon. Here the train is seen passing by the historic 1936 US Coast Guard... (more)

BNSF 252 brings freight into Northtown Yard with the "Gritty Palace" private car on the rear. The car is in route to its new home at the Minnesota Transportation Museum. The yard has b... (more)

CP 8861 leads a unit coal train over the CN bridge at Cisco in the Fraser River Canyon under stormy skies. The bridge in the foreground is the CPR mainline. Since the 1990s, CN and CP have shared... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio 1309 is an H-6 "Mallet" with a wheel configuration of 2-6-6-2. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1949 to haul coal from the fields in West Virginia. It only served ... (more)

This is a BNSF stack train at the Port of Tacoma, delivering a train to Tacoma Rail. As part of normal operations, this train comes west across Stevens Pass, through Seattle and down (south) to... (more)

In case you ever asked "what happened to the world's first two composite reefer cars?" the answer is they are now essentially a fixture in Stanwood, Washington. These are actually prett... (more)

A green signal on Track 3 on the Orin Line greets a loaded Union Pacific coal train rolling over the top of Logan Hill at 9:27 p.m. on July 10, 2021. The lights in the distance on the left is the ... (more)

Right at Home Union Pacific "Centennial" DDA40X 6936 is spending its first morning inside its new home at the former Rock Island shops in Silvis, Illinois. The historic unit was ... (more)

An inland view of the EGT Grain Facility were "earth worms" go to transform. Their are four tracks that squeeze down to two at the unloading building. Of the three trains in the shot, one (wrap... (more)

Deadhead status in the CN 2508. This day I had to Pilot the Flat Rock crew from west of Battle Creek as the previous train expired. After Battle Creek it was an Amtrack Ride to the "Level Peb... (more)

Nestled inside the center of CSX's Russell Yard, Progress Rail's Raceland Shops in Raceland, Kentucky have tracks full of relatively modern EMD locomotives that have been cast off from Class 1 Rai... (more)

Cutting it Close. The local NIT spur track literally cuts between two houses with little clearance to spare. Here, Y101 brings some scrap cars back from the small yard on the NIT heading to... (more)

The "Plug" Juliet-Chicago commuter was popular with railfans in the 1970s because it regularly ran with former GM&O F3s. My father really lucked out on this one, getting former GM&O F... (more)

Freeport McMoRan's #9 at Morenci.