ATI 02 is returning to the Breckenridge plant after shuffling cars at the nearby Natrona facility. Allegheny Technologies, or ATI, has an operation that focuses on the production of stainless and ... (more)

Iron ore delivering

Summer high sun is the worst, but sometimes you can find an angle that still kind of works. Here is Cedar Hill (New Haven) bound SENH1 on July 1, 1978, heading south through Hyde Park, New York ou... (more)

"C Train to Highland Falls"

On the afternoon of March 1st, 2023, twelve New York City Transit Budd R32 railcars pass the former former West Shore/ New York Central Railroad Highland F... (more)

DMIR 176 grinds up Proctor Hill with an empty ore train in September of 1987. Much has changed here over the years. The DMIR is now the CN, the line has been single tracked, and a hotel resides in... (more)

ATSF train 21, El Capitan, is seen near La Junta Colorado on June 5th 1938. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

I heard complaints from crews about that winterized window. A bit out of place down south.

Westbound, NYC U25B 2569, leading NYC U30B 2838, CB&Q GP30 942 and NYC U25B 2562, leaving the Central's Detroit yards on September 24, 1967. Between 1964-1965, the Central accumulated the large... (more)

BN 6599's head end brakeman inspects BN 8159 and its eastbound train as it enters double track just north of the Edmonds station at MP 18 along Puget Sound. This location was a bottleneck for BN a... (more)

SPMW 207 works eastward through Troy, CA.

As storm clouds gather, a westbound Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railnet train, led by HLCX SD40 5004 (which the NKCR is leasing), rumbles across an old trestle on the railroad's St. Francis Line as t... (more)

The last Santa Fe F7 left resides in the California State Railroad Museum. This is the only F7 originally built for Santa Fe that is still an F7. In the 1970s, Santa Fe turned over 200 F7s into C... (more)

The working crew of plow 560 poses with Tim Hortons in hand at Kapuskasing.

Two NYC E8s led by 4049 and 4069 power train 35 the Iroquois (Boston-New York-Chicago) at South Bend, Indiana on April 29, 1961. Photo by Louis A. Marre, from my collection.

Nothing like a photo of a roll of toilet paper being hooped up to a southbound crew street running in Lafayette, IN on the former Monon Line during the early 1990s. Slide taken by Jack Hawkins. Jo... (more)