With mount McKay in the backdrop, after a townhall meeting at the shops Royal Canadian Pacific backs up the north main to the depot to pickup the big cheese himself CEO Keith Creel for the trek ea... (more)

The legendary photographer Otto Perry captured this AT&SF 17 car mail train, number 8, doing 50 MPH at Bernalillo New Mexico on September 20th 1947. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

MC 2026 crosses over Cohasset Narrows in Wareham with the Train to Christmas Town just after sunset.

Shoving Southbound to New York.

The Reading and Northern F9A, B set lead an excursion from the "NEW" so called Outer Station in Reading to Jim Thorpe on one of the Fall Color Tours. A beautiful sight to NOT have a ano... (more)

Keokuk Junction Railway EMD FP9 Nos. 1750 and 1752, and EMD GP20 No. 2003 cross the Spoon River at Seville, Illinois, on April 7, 2016. The locomotives are running light to Bushnell to switch the ... (more)

The 2011 Santa Train departs Battle Creek to head for Chicago after spending the night on RIP track #1 for Battle Creek display. Not the best weather conditions for Santa but we take what we get. ... (more)

Loads from the Bennett Sawmill are easing into Palouse, where they will combine with the local from Pullman to head north the next day.

The 2016 edition of the Middleton Polar Express, operated by Iowa Pacific Holdings on the Wisconsin & Southern, featured ex-IC 101 along with four leased VIA domes. Built as CB&Q 9977, it is now o... (more)

“Oh, It Looks Good on You Though”
Potomac Eagle Scenic’s Green Spring Special nears the end of its northward trip at mp 1.0, near Millen, just shy of Green Spring, WV. See r... (more)

Smoking just a bit, the IC 101 leads the Santa Special under the former Newberry Road Bridge in Durand, Michigan. How times change. CN has since sold off the IC E-9A Set and the bridge has burne... (more)

Four F-Units (AMTK FP7 110, SP FP7 6456, AMTK F7B 161, AMTK FP7 120) from Amtrak train 1, the westbound Sunset Limited, have cut off the train after delivering it to Los Angeles Union Stati... (more)

F7s 4268 and 4266 slow to a stop at Hussey's Field in Conway, NH for a photo run-by. This trip ran between Conway and Fabyan for the 470 Railroad Club, showing off their two B&M F7s. 4268 was rece... (more)

EMD F7 4268 and 4266 lead a 470 Railroad Club Special over the Saco River at Cobb Farm Road in Bartlett, NH. The train is heading west up the former Maine Central Mountain Division and is destined... (more)

Commuter unit. Photo by unknown. From my collection.