"CTrail Over CTtransit at Hamilton Ave"

On the afternoon of January 23rd, 2024, Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)/CTrail EMD GP40-3H 6699 leads Metro-North Railroad tra... (more)

BNSF 4294 powers an eight car officer special westbound. Cars are Cajon Pass, Trinchera Pass, Mt. Helena, Raton Pass, Marias Pass, Topeka, Fred Harvey, & William B Strong.

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)

An aging pair of CSX AC4400CWs find themselves on the point of train I037 traversing the East/West Connection track at Hamlet passing the Seaboard era depot crossing over the S Line. The Depot was... (more)

PA and PA in PA: An N-scale NKP PA poses next to the real thing at Steamtown.

BNSF 9650 in the 'Executive' paint scheme holds lead unit in this consist of classic BNSF and novelty EMD power bringing train H-PASEVE into Tacoma, as it meets grain shuttle operations at the Tem... (more)

A UP oil can train meets the BNSF Denver to Provo train led by BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) which occupies the siding at Tolland, Colorado.

A storm the night before has blanketed Crescent, Colorado with a foot of snow as UP 5339 (ES44AC) leads an oil can train through the curve on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Heavy snow and sub-freezing temperatures make operations challenging for the crew of BNSF 8945 (SD70ACe), which is getting ready to take the Beer Train from the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado t... (more)

TCRX 800129 is one of three pullman cars made for the Seaboard Air Line Railroad, which existed from 1900 to 1967. These specially designed cars which ran on the Silver Meteor trains from New York... (more)

The electric loco EP2K-376 is leading the passenger train "Night Express" from Saint-Petersburg to Moscow

C means it was the third unit of the 347 consist. I wonder where the others are now...

The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.

The C&O 4008 leads the Georgia Washington at Lee Hall, eighteen miles out of Newport News. We are now following the C&O on its westerly course paralleling the James River to Richmond, VA on Se... (more)