Sitting adjacent to the 1839 realignment of the Baltimore and Ohio mainline over Parr's Ridge is this restored I-5D Cupola caboose built by the B&O between 1925 and 1929. After retirement from th... (more)

Service is over for these old rails. Produced in 1940 by Thyssen (Germany), these rails were then used for childern railway in Kharkov until these days. Now they are being replaced by newer soviet... (more)

Northward look over the sprawling yard complex in Corbin, KY.

Under a fiery sunrise, the signal at the west end of Amherst is lit for CN Q120's arrival, who are a few miles away.

One of many cantilever signal bridges that guard BNSF's Raton Subdivision stands in the darkness of night, with only the stars serving as a guide to the mountain terrain. A tardy Amtrak #4 had jus... (more)

An old leftover from the N&W era, a PL style Dwarf, stands on the spur of Belews Creek Steam Station. This Dwarf stood for over 43 years at the yard entrance to the plant. It along with the north ... (more)

Freshly-minted grabirons, still glowing hot after being formed to shape by blacksmith David Ragsdale, rest on a nearby cooling rack inside Union Pacific’s car shop at Desoto, Missouri, on Septem... (more)

Inside Union Pacific’s car shop at De Soto, Missouri, on September 29, 2011, blacksmith David Ragsdale shapes the end of a grabiron moments after removing it out of the electric furnace seen in ... (more)

Lots of power is at the engine terminal at CSX's Queensgate Yard. A cut of covered hopper cars is about to go over the hump seen on the right.

CSX Transportation's Queensgate Yard in Cincinnati, Ohio is one of four hump yards still active on the CSX system. The bowl of the hump seems to fill the entire valley in order to sort rail cars.

At Union Pacific’s car shop in De Soto, Missouri, a welder repairs a freight car part in a fury of molten metal and flying sparks on the evening of September 28, 2011.

The property at Superior was still a tidy place in the autumn of 1967 on the onetime route of the Olympian Hiawatha.

Workers in Union Pacific’s De Soto, Missouri, car shop break down a freight car truck to individual components for rebuilding on September 29, 2011. Here they are removing the springs before sep... (more)

The NP depot at the lonely outpost of Bonner looks sharp to passing patrons on NP passenger trains.

From onboard Pennsy's train #90, The South Wind, we get a highball from the rear brakeman aboard a NYC freight waiting in the hole. Burr Siding was south of Lebanon on PRR's I&F, and was improved ... (more)