Nickel Plate 765 leads the Joliet Rocket into Chicago's La Salle Street Station with a head of steam. The modern glass building really clashes with 765, and about 50 years separate the two.

It's the 2018 Big Lick Train Tug! As part of a fundraiser, teams get a shot at seeing how far they can "pull" the 611 in twenty seconds. Incidentally, "Big Lick" is the origina... (more)

What do you do to make two different things come together and work as one?... "COMPROMISE" That's exactly what is done to join two different size rails. A 136 lb rail and 100 lb rail a... (more)

Ge 4/4 II # 617 "Ilanz" of the RhB in the special paint scheme for "50 years LGB" (Lehmann Gross Bahn or Lehmann Garten Bahn, now part of Märklin). On the side of the locomoti... (more)

The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long (2.33 km) elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The aba... (more)

An uphill BNSF train passes the 12 derailed boxcars just before tunnel 2 in the Tehachapi Mountains. A few telegraph poles were brought down too, unfortunately.

Repair in place?

The ever-encroaching jungle has made a good start on reclaiming this coach with a broken back.

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It was a long wait for a train in Delyatin. Wandering around the yard we found this rather elegant Soviet era coach. Soon, a couple of guys showed up in a picku... (more)

Pulling an MLW for a good cause. To raise money for the Special Olympics, CN helped organize the 'steel challenge' at Exporail today, where teams of twenty people competed to see who could ... (more)

The Goose is a 2 feet gauge railcar, based on similar machines from Rio Grande Southern RR. It was built in 2015 by the Statfold Barn Railway, and operates there.

The end of a short rail spur in tiny Hensler, North Dakota, on BNSF’s Zap Subdivision branch line out of Mandan has an unique end-of-track bumper. I’ve never seen one used this way, and I’m ... (more)

Recent tree and brush clearing work has made possible this aerial view of the abandoned roundhouse at the Lehigh Valley's former Manchester Yard. The yard was one of the largest classification yar... (more)

Czech Railways introduced another locomotive with a special paddle. The 380 series locomotive, also called Emil Zátopek, represents a 375.0 steam locomotive nicknamed Hrboun. They mark the 100th ... (more)

Such a scene can only be captured in India. Where else in the world can you meet a monkey on a platform?

The headlight of the Union Pacific's fire fighting train cuts the smoke-filled air in the Sacramento River Valley as the Delta Fire rages in the background.