"Take me back": As the sun continues to rise to the East, a Norfolk & Western J Class locomotive makes haste with a hot shot freight. Norfolk & Western #611 - October 2019

End of an Era. The Famous PRR Signals that guided Westbound trains in the "Trench" at CP Penn have been retired. Also of note, new crossovers in front of the signals, the Interlocking ha... (more)

One of fifty-nine BL2s produced, the 7172 and its slug are hard at work on a steamy June afternoon in 1981. The unit was built for the Western Maryland Railway in October, 1948, as their No. 82.

Trans-Mongolian 2020 and 2021's summer and autumn railfanning photo tours available for booking now. Please join our fantastic photo tours and welcome to the Trans-Mongolian railway! Contact us:... (more)

A jogger ignores the Walker Repo train crossing the Los Angeles River on the La Habra Sub.Trains on this line are pretty rare these days, mostly repo moved, a few a month.

A Santa fe westbound pulls out onto the Canyon Diablo Bridge while making a set out at the Canyon Diablo siding. Note the pilings in the canyon from past bridges. Photo taken from my friend Don... (more)

GASX (GATX Corporation) stock car in use by Great Markwestern Packing Company. At least on Conrail, loaded, these would be the first cars behind the locomotives on intermodal trains, and there wou... (more)

Prime Mover Mover

A view of one of the shop tracks at Baltimore & Ohio’s Glenwood Yard reveals Chesapeake & Ohio 8504, the hulk of an F7B used to transport prime movers. Also on th... (more)

2 Cheeseburgers to go! Lunch on the run is being hand delivered to the head end crew of this Utah Railway coal train as it backs out of the Martin, Utah yard. As a result of the Union Pacific/Sout... (more)

CSX 1209 and others sit on the shop tracks at the south end of Boyles Yard in Tarrant City, Alabama. Note the old L&N roundhouse in the background. ABC Coke can be seen in the background also.

For many years, railfans could only dream of CP heritage units; they have finally become a reality. Here are CP 7010 and CP 7015 sitting idle in Bensenville Yard, gleaming under a great evening sk... (more)

A beautiful sunset is fading away as Grenada Railway 3832 eases through the curve and deeper into the Resolute Forest Products Mill in Grenada, Mississippi. This mill is Grenada Railway's biggest ... (more)

A former NS unit leads the north yard job on its daily operations around town. By far the best part of this job is catching it working at the Springfield Underground facilities just east of town. ... (more)

With a fresh crew and a good warrant, BNSF 6305 begins the long journey across Colorado as it hauls 12,634 feet of empty coal cars. BNSF has increased their numbers of double empty coal trains ove... (more)