A local crew enters the street running in Zürich's Industriequartier after working Swissmill, aka the Kornhaus, which holds the distinction of being the tallest active grain elevator in the world... (more)

L782 has arrived in Vidalia and is swapping power with L781, creating a momentary gaggle of the railroad's recently acquired ex NS B32-8s. These units were in the 3500 number series when delivere... (more)

SBB Cargo train with a pair of classic Re 420s heads west along Walensee Lake through the scenic village of Mühlehorn.

Today's train 200 is using what is possibly the ACWR's only active SD60F, a rare locomotive type in US railroading after CN retired the fleet. ACWR purchased 15 of these locomotives for reasons u... (more)

The Reading & Northern is arguably one of the most desirable railfan destinations east of the Mississippi and seems to be headed nowhere but up on the list of must-see railroads. From vintage EMD ... (more)

On a hot summer morning, MDS 4051 is slowly making its way south from Meridian to Waynesboro, MS. The enthusiastic employees of the Railroad Bakery have come out onto the porch and shouted their ... (more)

A little Friday fun-- how many differences can you count between these two units? Same parent company, same loco type (after rebuild), on the same railroad. I count at least 15. The CCKY has arri... (more)

SD9s on a stack train??? Well, sort of. It's 2004 and Laurel is melting down. Nearly every afternoon, the Billings Transfer would drag cuts of BNSF traffic out of the yard to an open siding som... (more)

The last survivor. Santa Fe rebuilt CF7s were once a staple of shortline power, found throughout the US. Today, they are getting much harder to find. This particular example is the last operati... (more)

Railjet service from Zurich passes the scenic Walensee Lake on a warm September afternoon.

It'll be a cold day in...Chattanooga??? if these units ever run again! That's what many people (myself included) thought about the two F7As that East Chattanooga Belt Railway train EC01 has just ... (more)

I always wanted to photograph one of these F40M-2s as soon as I saw photos of one as they were delivered to the Canadian American Railroad, an Iron Roads shortline whose hard luck story was just a... (more)

The SLRG seemed to have everything going for it at this time. Iowa Pacific was a rapidly growing company, delighting railfans with passenger service using a variety of vintage equipment. Freight ... (more)

Another day, another fail. This was my third and final shot at trying to get the ESHR doing something with its carfloat operation in Cape Charles, a quaint little town along the Chesapeake Bay at... (more)

If you blinked, you missed this one. CSX leased its Cowen and Pickens Subdivisions west of Grafton to Watco, operating as the Appalachian & Ohio Railroad. This was a pretty significant acquisiti... (more)