Cumberland Mine Railroad SD38-2 22 has reached the coal unloading facility at Alicia harbor. They will spend the next two hours unloading the coal into storage silos for eventual shipment downrive... (more)

Passing beneath the signals at CP 89 on the Amtrak Hudson Line, Amtrak Train 705 powers northward, pulling a string of passenger cars bound for Albany.

With the city's skyline and Coors Field in the background, the BNSF engine facility in Denver has a mix of both yard and road power waiting to work.

Approaching Control Point Maple, where Metrolink's Orange Sub meets their Olive Sub (the two tracks in the foreground), is Union Pacific Railroad local LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, heading ... (more)

Budds Floating To Scrap. Early on the morning of Tuesday, March 4, 2025, NYNJ Rail moved 12 Budd built R-32s across New York Harbor for scrapping. The cars were loaded on the NYNJ 200 barge... (more)

CSX's Hazard Yard sits quiet and empty as we find four old cabooses waiting for their turn to be used down mine spurs. BO 903032 is a blast from the past, still sporting its Chessie paint scheme.

Rock Climbing Kicking Horse Pass Early Morning... a Westbound train of tanks climbs the 2.4% grade above Field BC. A rough trail used by rock climbers skirts the shed to the lofty height... (more)

Westbound at Glendale California with thirty cars. Otto's speed estimate was 30 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The Clinchfield Railroad was primarily a coal hauler, although not as big as B&O, C&O, N&W and others. The gray and yellow 3010 was one of 24, SD40s such units in the Clinchfield, seen here at E... (more)

"Big Blue Unveiling"

A three pack of Union Pacific Locomotives lead a manifest train between Mormon Rocks and over California 138 on the UP Mojave Subdivision at Cajon Pass.

4014 gets underway for the run down the Canyon Sub at the Clio Trestle, just west of Portola.

Two KCS pups working the yard in Baton Rouge. These SW1500s sounded great working the yard. Even though it is just a yard job pulling down, myself and the guys were thrilled to get a shot of these... (more)

With a beautiful sunrise and fresh snow, WW102 gets his train at Carmeuse to head north. Some of the product in the hoppers is lime for cat liter at Clorox just 12 miles or so north.

Crews work 7 days a week to shore up and raise bridge piers on the washed-out bridge at Poplar over the Nolichucky River on the former Clilnchfield mainline damaged during Hurricane Helene.