A mix of switchers sit at the shuttered Granite City Steel plant. There are SW9s, SW1200s and an SW1500 sitting here. The plant has been closed since November 2023. This photo was taken from a ... (more)

The National Limited, Baltimore & Ohio train 2, is departing Washington D.C. in 1939. Otto Perry photo, my collection.

Grand Trunk Western Maple Leaf departs Chicago for Toronto.

UP ES44AC #8071 sits on a heavy duty flatcar alongside several other locomotives next to the Juniata Locomotive Shops in Altoona, PA. This locomotive was involved in a derailment on May 21st, 2023... (more)

The Revenue Debut Of 222. On the morning of Friday, February 28, 2025, MTA Metro-North Railroad 222 (P32AC-DM) made its revenue debut in its new wrap while facing south on Train 1841 from ... (more)

The 18th unit in CSX's heritage fleet, Seaboard Air Line 1900, leads train M60106 north into Junction City, Georgia, taking the siding at the south end of Brownsand.

The Santa Train rolls south, crossing the Russell Fork River at Splashdam, between the Toms Bottom and Haysi stops.

"Buttercup" takes the winter off. The name must be "official"; notice the recently applied bumper sticker on the cab.

'Round the Outside. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R77 locomotive 889 (GE SL50) is seen hauling a work train around the loop at Corona Yard. Also of interest are the multiple R... (more)

An eastbound Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway freight passes over itself as it rounds the Tehachapi Loop (called Walong in the Southern Pacific timetable, on whose trackage the ATSF has trackage... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built only 21 GP39 locomotives, with 20 of them going to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. (The only other was built for Florida's Atlanta & St. Andrews Bay Ra... (more)

A Union Pacific coal train rolls into East Yard, a few miles south of downtown Los Angeles. A pair of General Electric-built diesels are pulling this train: C30-7 2439 and B23-7 182.
more)

Stretching her legs out in the morning sun, it would be later in the day when she hits the mainline for some runs. A year from now, there is hope to have her and her team stationed right here wit... (more)

The little work horse that could. These Geeps were owned by most railroads for use in mainline service to local switching. UP had a large share of these. Here are a couple at Council Bluff's servi... (more)

It is standing room only for railfans on the Terry Ranch Road bridge, watching as the Union Pacific's Big Boy #4014 runs underneath as it heads towards Speer, Wyoming.