A gaggle of former Milwaukee Road Cabeese rust away on St. Feriole island, near a grain facility in Prairie du Chien.

D&SNG K36 #482 is about 6 miles from its destination of Durango, passing the Home Ranch Siding, MP 457.25, at Durango, CO 9/24/18.

D&SNG K28 #476 pulls the 2018 Fall Photographer's Train carefully along the High Line, MP 469.2, Rockwood, CO 9/23/18. This, the signature location on the D&SNGRR, was the highlight of the trip f... (more)

D&SNG K28 #476 is in charge of the 2018 Fall Photographer's Train and passing the site of Bowen's Ranch, MP 479.55, 9/23/18.

D&SNG K28 #476 with the 2018 Fall Photographer's Train en tow, crosses the Animas at Tefft, CO 9/23/18.

Transloading activities are underway on a four-car derailment that occurred on the east end of the bowl at IHB's Blue Island Yard. Tom Golden photo.

I would say to take your pick, but I'm not so sure that's possible in this situation. When it comes to this mass gathering of locomotives from many different railroads, some have futures and some ... (more)

Don't even try to stop it. The Fillmore & Western Railway is known for being the location of the filming of many movies, useful because of its long stretches of desolate track far from population ... (more)

All alone in the weeds. It's a sad ending for Illinois Central SW14 #1450 as it lives out its final days at the National Railway Equipment facility in Dixmoor, IL. It was built new for the IC in 1... (more)

Weed, Montana.... The small mining, agricultural and mining hamlet of weed sits in a secluded corner of Mullan Pass near Iron Ridge. These buildings have seen the passage of Steam to Diese... (more)

Is it Dead forever? US Steel laid rails to Atlantic City Iron Mine in 1962. The railroad hauled ore out of the mine to a connection with the Union Pacific until 1983. The railroad crossed t... (more)

BNSF ES44AC 5846 leads a high priority Intermodal train headed for Los Angeles over the Tehachapi Pass. Cars from a recent derailment can be seen laying on the inside of the curve. Steep grades co... (more)

The east deadlines at NRE are still quite colorful despite the recent purge in equipment. In the foreground is an ex-IC Paducah rebuilt SD20, originally Southern SD24 6331.

The deadlines east of the shop at NRE are thinning, but there are still some need engines to see: Built as an SD45 as CNW 913, it was sold and rebuilt as an SD40M-2 as SP 8670. At the merger, UP p... (more)

A westbound BNSF unit coal train tops the summit at Bozeman Pass at it exits Bozeman Pass Tunnel in a cut at West End, Montana, on June 23, 2020. The longer and more-restrictive original bore is o... (more)