My first railfan trip in Georgia was also my first time catching a unit in Chessie. Later, I was treated to a CSXT southbound with two WC SD45's! I was thinking about that day yesterday when I n... (more)

A pair of Allentown-bound SD50's lead a train off of the Lebanon Valley branch. Next stop - Reading Yard.

The motive power is pure Pennsylvania, but those are the Rockies not the Appalachians in the background, and we in Denver, watching CB&Q train 66 ease out of the 38th Street yard for Chicago. In 1... (more)

A light-engine move consisting of an MP15 and four SW900's, all of Reading heritage, rolls through the small rock cut at Myerstown, PA. The consist was en route to Enola for servicing.

In addition to running a beautifully restored car from what was claimed to be the smallest street railway in the British Empire prior to its abandonment in 1947, Nelson's tourist tramway's western... (more)

Santa Fe's Second Fullerton Road switch has tied up in track 8140 west of the Fullerton depot with a trio of new SP B40's just back from some warranty work at a facility along the Olive Sub in Yor... (more)

Prior to the formation of Conrail on April 1, 1976, a visit to Allentown almost always yielded at least one set of Lehigh Valley C628's. When I visited Allentown the first weekend after that, they... (more)

Forgotten U boat.

In the spring of 1977, Conrail instututed a run-through service between Allentown, PA, and Richmond, VA with the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad. A segment of the short-lived servic... (more)

On June 27th, 1986, the Southern Pacific's westbound Tracy Roadswitcher approaches the Hammett Road overpass north of the small town of Salida, in California's Central Valley. This train worked f... (more)

With the merger of the Chicago & North Western into the Union Pacific in 1995, solid consists of CNW power were common way out west. CNW 8714, CNW 8630, and CNW 6932 pull a 99 car Yermo to North P... (more)

Train wreck near Oaro, New Zealand. In search of a nice spot to take a picture of the evening northbound freight train we stumbled over this instead. Unfortunately I don't know what locomotive thi... (more)

If memory serves, the turn between Eufaula and Ozark was down to three days a week by 1975, but I cannot remember if it was a roundtrip on M-W-F, or wb to Ozark on M-W-F, and eb back to Eufaula on... (more)

In the pre-wide cab era, it was generally preferable to have a minority builder (non-EMD) unit leading. In this case, I would have been happy to have those three SD26's all alone on the point of t... (more)

A former Atlantic Coast Line GP-30 is here seen working the Pacific Coast. This is the BNSF Grays Harbor local train, returning from having switched the Hoquiam Plywood mill spur. Behind the tra... (more)