All about depth perception... Flying a couple of hundred feet above track level we see the 15-car Durango bound 464 wrapping itself around Horseshoe Curve before exiting the High Line and making a... (more)

The Museum of the American Railroad is working hard at restoring this PA-1 heavily damaged in a derailment in Mexico. It is a sister to the unit restored as Nickel Plate 190. This shot shows hea... (more)

SP 4449 and SP&S 700 sit side by side at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center in Portland, OR.

Trona Railway's "Daily Run" crosses Searles Station Rd on it approach to Searles, where the crew will interchange with the Union Pacific before returning to Trona.

CN's latest Dome Car, the CN 119, heads to sweet home Homewood on the tail end of Z 149. In Fresh CN business paint the former Amtrak 10031 "Ocean View" has a new life on CN. The car is... (more)

As passenger trains were cancelled everywhere a few classy looking units could still be captured. By the time I got to Wichita Falls later that year they were gone. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, fr... (more)

Locomotives really are washed once in a while
A Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC gets a thorough cleaning before heading into the main shop for an overhaul on Track 2 at the east side buildi... (more)

Lehigh Valley Rail Management's AM job departs Iron Hill Yard on a rainy morning with a transfer run to NS behind a trio of ex-L&N/CSX switchers. This was once a booming location in the midst of B... (more)

Sacrificed for structural testing, derelict VIA Rail equipment sits at CAD. At left is more ex-VIA Rail equipment - a testbed built on an LRC-3 frame.

Union Pacific GP35 762 is an interesting locomotive. Recently repainted in North Platte NE (on September 18, 1974), this locomotive was not purchased new from builder EMD. Built as EMD Demonstra... (more)

ATSF 2-10-2 1696 is seen helping EMD E6 number 15 with a ten car Super Chief near Morley Colorado in 1942. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.

The times they are a'changin'....after watching & waiting since 2007, ACWR is full steam ahead with their cab units.

Factory Fresh!

As the sun appears over the San Bernardino Mountains, Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway train Q-NYLA (Quality Network [TOFC/COFC]; East Coast [CR Connection in Ch... (more)

CPKC Railway train 113, an intermodal train heading from Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia, is westbound on CPKC’s Laggan Subdivision, paralleling the Bow River. Canadian Pacif... (more)