Northbound Empire Service train #259 passes a tugboat pushing an oil barge up the Hudson River.

In 1947, to help meet the demands of the post war coal boom, the Clinchfield purchased 6 used 4-6-6-4 Challenger-type locomotives from the Denver, Rio Grande, and Western. Despite being very big p... (more)

Love it or hate it - Locomotive a vapeur consolidation 140 A 259 - As displayed at the museum depicting sabotage of the railways during the war. (Bottom view)

Because of the derailment on the CSX New Castle Sub in Newton Falls, OH , CSX has been running detours on Wheeling and Lake Erie Trackage. Here, Q352 runs east to Connellsville to pick up on it'... (more)

About 75 miles east of Reno Nevada. The westbound California Zephyr was struck by a empty gravel semi. I ran to the front expecting to see damage to the unit. Not two superliners torn open with fi... (more)

Results of a break in two of a Continuous Welded Rail Train.

It's the first night of Train Festival 2011 in the Quad Cities as a pair of Amtrak heritage locomotives idle on a private varnish train from Chicago. Thunderstorms developed quickly this evening a... (more)

Traveling at well over a hundred mph, this is one Amtrak Corridor train that does not stop at the Cornwells Heights Station just outside of Philadelphia. Please stay behind the yellow line... (more)

The northbound Nakusp wayfreight aboard barge and tug Iris G docks at Rosebery on Slocan Lake where it will unload and continue on the isolated Kaslo branch to Nakusp.

NW 1218 and 611 running side by side westbound through Christiansburg, VA as seen from the US 460 Business bridge. These activities were a part of the 1987 NRHS convention held in Roanoke.

This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)

Several ex-BN E8 cabs and an ex-GMO EMD cab sit on the ground under the overhead crane at the old Silvis Shops, operated by NRE. Scanned from a 35mm print negative.

Tight fit! WVC 67 enters daylight again as it exits the south portal of the Kelly Mtn Tunnel with a short train of stone cars bound for the GC&E Subdivision on the former Western Maryland Railway.

The CN crew on this loaded grain train started their journey at Ft. Dodge, IA and brought the snow with them!

Lehigh Valley's flagship passenger train The Black Diamond ran between New York City and Buffalo until 1959, when the LV's passenger service was reduced to (2) mainline trains a day. The John Wi... (more)