Norfolk Southern's Andrews Yard in Columbia, South Carolina, was in the center of the path of totality for the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017. NS 7697, a GE ES40DC, was in between assignm... (more)

"Redbirds Snake Though LIC" New York City Transit's "Train of Many Colors" (TOMC) snakes through Long Island City on it's deadhead move from Corona Yard to 34th Street-Hudson Yards. The Qu... (more)

Spent the evening with this beauty from Lima.

A dreary summer day in rural South Carolina passes by as does the Pickens Railroad Belton Job on its way through the farmlands of Anderson County to interchange with the Grenville and Western Rail... (more)

" Expansion " . The Naugatuck RR's Plan to expand their shop yard is well under way as volunteer crews work hard laying track (in background). At the same time, new spikes are waiting to b... (more)

The sun peeks out for a brief moment as BNSF ES44C4 No. 7092 leads the daily hot Alliance-Portland intermodal (Q ALTPTL6 11F) north through the countryside at Longs Peak, Colorado on August 12, 20... (more)

A former section of Reading Company's Newtown branch which had survived into SEPTA made the transition from rail to trail in 2016 seen here at what was once a diamond intercepting the West Trenton... (more)

A car rolls through the computer-controlled retarders at East Hump while being sorted for eastern destinations at Union Pacific’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 3, 2011. Retarders... (more)

A westbound BNSF train rolls by Daggett.

3601 rounds a curve near the Falls Village hydro-electric plant's upper canal house and the Housatonic River dam in Falls Village, CT

Way out at the old Western town of Canyon Diablo, BNSF thunders past remnants of what is left of the town.

Just before sunrise on the morning after Winterail 2016, a westbound stack train streaks past Multnomah Falls in the depths of the Columbia River Gorge. The upper falls, visible on the sheer cliff... (more)

The sound of locomotives working and exhaust fill the air as a westbound manifest begins its journey out of Green River, Wyoming as it heads up the grade on Peru Hill near James Town on July 23, 2... (more)

Sometimes things just don't go as planned. I had often thought about catching a lengthy freight at this location but looking in the other direction. The tracks hug the shoreline and lengthy freigh... (more)

A vintage bridge over the Missouri River at Toston, MT frames the cab of BNSF 4337. The GE is serving as a DPU on the rear of a westbound grain train on Montana Rail Link and is en route from Laur... (more)