On a beautiful spring afternoon in Washington County, the Battenkill work train/ local passes the stored former SNC BL2s as it heads south for Eagle Bridge. Leading the train is the leased SNEX R... (more)

With internal word being that the Pan Am Railways pair of FP9As may be reaching the end of the line for a variety of reasons, any remaining office car trips with this pair of 1954-built veteran du... (more)

Welcome to the Vermont Rail System! In late April, Vermont Rail System agrees to acquire the New England Southern Railroad as it’s latest affiliate. On a May 4 PR shoot, the NEGS SW1500 2555 was... (more)

Duluth Missabe and Iron Range C630 903 at Proctor MN June 1974. The 903 was built as Union Pacific 2903 in May 1966 and retired by the UP in November 1973. Picked up by the power short Missabe in ... (more)

COVID killed the railroad line. Cited as decline in business due to COVID19, Norfolk Southern announced they would be reducing operations at Linwood yard in Salisbury, NC. 85 positions will be e... (more)

A Montana Western Railway train has arrived at the interchange with Montana Rail Link at Garrison, Montana, on September 9, 1995. In 1986, the MWRR leased and began operating 52 miles of trackage ... (more)

EMD SD70ACe #618 standing by in Araraquara maintenance facilities waiting the next assingment.

Tom Golden photo.

NS #4087, the same train we first met in Oakvale, departs Bluefield after a crew change on the morning of April 30, 2020. Aside from the lubritoriums on the lower left, the coal tower is one of th... (more)

Left to right: Conductor Timothy Bell, general manager & locomotive engineer Reid Dawe, President & CEO Robert, J. Riley and director of customer service & sales Terry Redeker pose for a picture i... (more)

In 1990, Burlington Northern converted EMD SD40-2 No. 7890 to burn natural gas fuel as an experiment to lower fuel costs and get cleaner exhaust emissions. The rebuild included SD45-like flared ra... (more)

It appears that LeRoy has the crossovers lined(how he did it is beyond me) as Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha approaches on the eastward main. It appears the other person with LeRoy is Jerry Cherney... (more)

Dawn at Canal Flats
The sun hasn’t risen yet on the morning of September 14, 2002, as Canadian Pacific’s Royal Canadian Pacific passenger train rumbles along the serene Columbia River a... (more)

On February 25, 1999, a southbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe coal train rumbles past a stately barn located at Greenland on a more rural portion of Colorado’s Joint Line. Because of its proximi... (more)

Six minutes behind Santa Fe’s 881 train, a trio of “hot rod” GP60Ms speed the 791 train eastbound out of Ancona, Illinois, at 5:38 p.m. on May 9, 1992, seen in a panned photograph. When was the ne... (more)