During one of the worst central Illinois winters in memory, a northbound "slingshot" piggyback train, powered by ICG GP35 2501, became mired in snowdrifts south of Springfield. GM&O F3s 800B and ... (more)

N&W 168 among with other N&W power at Elmore, WV in the spring of 1970.

CSX borrowed UP's Challenger 3985 to celebrated the 50th anniversary of the annual Santa Train in 1992. The railroad dressed it up as a Clinchfield locomotive for this occasion.

Following on from my Erie 0-8-8-0 Camelback here is a Pennsylvania & Reading Railroad camelback 4-4-0. The reason for the position of the cab was that the wide Wotton firebox designed to burn anth... (more)

One of the only three camelback articlated locos ever built, Erie 'Angus' type 0-8-8-0s Nos 2600-02 built by Alco in 1907 for pusher duty. These Mallets were rebuilt by Baldwin in 1921 as 2-8-8-2s... (more)

Westbound Yampa Valley Mail making a stop at Granby, CO in 1964.

Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr stops in Greeley en route to Denver and points east.

High speed running! Simpson 1201 is delivering a string of empty flat cars to the mill at Dayton and is running around the cars in order to shove them into the mill. Is walking speed too fast? ... (more)

BNSF 5751 West follows the contours of the land while truck traffic paces it on parallel Hy. 287.

#52 and comrades get serviced. John was too preoccupied with a warbonnet PA to snap off a shot of that engine on the left, new and unique to the SF, a FM H12-44TS, one of three purchased that yea... (more)

We have a saying in Britain..."You wait all day for a bus, then 3 come at once". Well, you`ve gone one better! 4445 and 9025 head a train of school buses through Rock Springs.WY.

UP 6759 was involved in a collision near Mulvane,Kansas on 12/17/2007. While leading a Red Rock coal train, it collided with a UP local. One train was traveling north and another was heading sout... (more)

A Sunday afternoon in San Jose