D&NE 28 is being prepared for asbestos abatement in the Cloquet Terminal's (ex-D&NE) engine house at Cloquet. The air compressors and other piping have been stripped off in preparation for this w... (more)

An EMD and an GE team up on a coal train headed south on the BNSF's Hinkley Subdivision. The train is a few miles south of Bruno, heading for the Twin Cities.

A group of photographer and railfans gather at Strasburg early one October morning to bear witness to an unexpected sight in 2012 - a modern day steam powered freight carrier at work!

Three SD40-2s give a taste of the Union Pacific of days gone by as they cruise out of Kearney down the modern three track mainline of the UP of today.

The lead GE spews exhaust as it works hard up Arlington Hill with a westbound empty coal train not long after sunrise.

At 40 years old, the #406 has already been on Missabe property for 16 years!

Another view of UP Turbine 3, at Cheyenne, Wy on May 11, 1968. Do not ask me why the coupler is freshly painted white --- I do not know. But I could suspect the locomotive or the tightlock ... (more)

Union Pacific's Southern Pacific Heritage SD70ACe #1996 leads Long Beach,CA - Atlanta,GA intermodal train 22Z on the west end of Tallapoosa.

Empty oil cans race up the Mississippi River Valley before dawn on BNSF rails.

RA 5005 runs underneath the US Steel and Air Liquide pipe-bridges on the N&NW spur.

66156 with non standard small numbers on this side only, crosses the causeway at the pretty village of Golant, near journeys end at Golant.

this diesel "tractor" is shunting cars in a non-electrified siding behind the station of Meilen to the ramp of MIDOR AG biscuit and ice-cream factory

A Union Pacific coal train traverses Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on November 7, 2012. The train is passing through short 63-foot Tunnel 40 and approaching Tunnel 39, while the midd... (more)

The 70th annual running of the Clinchfield Santa Train creeps across massive Copper Creek trestle situated just South of Clinchport, VA a balmy November evening along this highly scenic section of... (more)