Amtrak passenger train passes NS steel slab train 69T at Mantua.

I finally pulled off the true over over under shot at Santa Fe Jct./BNSF Crossing. Every train in the shot was moving, albeit the move on the bottom, UP Train MLIKS 11, was slow rolling up to a re... (more)

An Amtrak Acela Express takes the quick route over the Susquehanna River as the Lantern Queen, a Mississippi Riverboat replica, returns from a more leisurely excursion.

Well, I didn't expect this. AMTK 184 rounds the curve around the Anniversary Train while leading Amtrak # 733 out of Oakland.

The Omen. Day 2 of the Durango & Silverton's annual Railfest dawned mostly cloudy and the weather just went downhill from there. When Eureka & Palisade #4 arrived in Silverton around 5 PM,... (more)

The Tropicana Juice train has just begun it’s long journey back to Florida with a train of empties out of the Bayonne terminal. After crossing Newark Bay, the train will pass under the flight pa... (more)

Parked For The Day....While CP’s Super Local is parked on the Mohawk Yard Switching Lead its crew is at rest in a local motel. Sometime in the wee hours of tomorrow its rested crew will arrive o... (more)

How many of us remember that Amtrak operated F7s into the 90s? Not their own, of course. But Amtrak was (and is) the operator for Shore Line East, the Connecticut DOT New Haven - Old Saybrook - N... (more)

Eastbound Amtrak passenger cruises past a waiting Conrail freight with E44 #4409 leading.

Train Racing on the NEC! Septa Airport Line train has the lead but this will be short-lived as Amtrak regional train is moving up through the "S" curve quickly behind AEM-7 945.

Foreshadowing of things to come? Is it so bad the vultures are circling UP? Probably not, but this bird might make some worry like the Snows of Kilimanjaro. Kinda cool when you can combine two ... (more)

It was a good day at Copper Creek

A large herd of elk are more interested in the grain and I rather than the train that is about to hit them!

After waiting patiently for about 45 minutes, I finally saw a headlight in the distance. Now I just had to hope that the 3-minute arrival cycle for jets flying into Detroit Metro would continue, ... (more)

Amtrak's WB California Zephyr climbs past Clay siding as a UP loaded coal train restarts its journey downhill to Denver at Rocky siding. Both trains are roughly 1.5 to 2 miles apart at this poin... (more)