A venerable SD40-2 on the GM interchange watches as 213 pierces through the fog at Midland after a meet with 172.

The sun has just set over the Northern New Mexico plains as Amtrak #4 splits through the semaphores of Robinson. The train will continue from here to its next stop of Raton, NM.

NS 65G slowly comes around the curve in Apison, TN with (NS 21R) relief crew in change of the train. The single GE motor pulled with no issue as the unit empty ethanol train slowly make it's way t... (more)

As the dawn light start to show through the thick fog, and rain, Macon bound NS 362 (Sheffield,AL-Macon,GA) is straggling up the Howardsville grade on wet rails as the manifest is a quarter of a m... (more)

Amtrak California B32-8 No. 2051 from the San Joaquin corridor in Northern California help bolster Pacific Surfliner capacity. Running on Pacific Surfliner No.792, No. 2051 takes a sunset beac... (more)

With 30 privately owned cars in tow, three Amtrak heritage P42DCs lead the 2017 New River Train west through Sandstone, W.Va.

After taking the first cut of loaded coal hoppers to a siding near Mount Hope, a pair of run-through CSX motors return light to Pax to pick up another loaded of coal on R.J. Corman's Loup Creek Br... (more)

Smokey diesel. (CNJ 113 0-6-0 is smoking it up)

On the last light of the day on the former ATSF Transcon-BNSF Chilicothe Sub the eastbound M-KCKGAL3-20 is easing on the dynamic brake, as a pair of GE motor bring the 5,764ft long manifest off th... (more)

Conrail Shared Assets local YPMO-R1 heads off for A.E. Staley on the former Pennsy "Old Line" as the power for Conrail Shared Assets local BS02 sits on the Amtrak Northeast Corridor brid... (more)

Reading T-1 Northern 4-8-4 at Steamtown during Railfest 2017. I have often said this is the first steam locomotive I ever saw under steam a lifetime ago in 1961. My first railroad picture was o... (more)

As the sun lay low across the prairie, BNSF U-FCKCNI-0-20 is slowly easeing its way down grade as the unit sand train is about the diverge from the main 2 track at Control-Point (CP) 1805 (MP-185.... (more)

At dusk the Georgia Power Hammond Steam plant train NS 708 is taking on the hill just at Control-Point (CP) Hitt (MP-233.7A) on the main 2 track heading south into the dark Tennessee sky on the NS... (more)

Since 2001 (15 trips or so) I have tried to get that famous glint shot at Winslow with no luck...timing just never worked out. On this day it was steady clouds with some heavy rain bursts until t... (more)

The very last Norfolk Southern-ran NS 380 rolls into Maben, W.Va., after a heavy rain. Within a few hours of giving up its track authority, this section of the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater... (more)