Beavers caused this! On a fateful night in September 1993, Algoma Central’s ore train with SD40 184 and GP7 102 was descending a heavy grade when it discovered the right of way just ahead wash... (more)

A Canadian maple leaf sticks to the oily leaf spring of one of Algoma Central five F7s powering a Canyon picnic train on Sept. 30, 1997. The F7s were retired and the popular train to Canyon Park... (more)

Algoma Central regularly takes enthusiasts 114 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Canyon Park to hike, picnic and relax alongside the Agawa River for an hour and a half. One of the substa... (more)

Union Pacific 3095 West, train CLS (“California Live Stock”), pulls through the siding at ironically-named Dry Lake, Nevada, to drench and wet 18 triple-deck cars of hogs en route to customer ... (more)

The water tank spout and sanding tower hoses are missing, but Wabash E8 and E7 units 1003 and 1017 didn’t need them anyway during their layover in Council Bluffs, Iowa, awaiting their 12-hr. 410... (more)

In the state of Virginia, Pennsy E-44 4416 and GG-1 4632 await their next calls in RF&P’s Potomac Yard, its hump in the background. Sharp eyes will note the kerosene lanterns hanging on the �... (more)

Illinois Terminal SW-1200 780 and its train were in the clear at Bissell, Ill. for Illinois Central’s Train 21 “Green Diamond” to zip past on its run from Chicago to St. Louis on July 11, 19... (more)

The rear brakeman is waiting to swing aboard when Great Northern’s eastbound Train 28 “Western Star” whistles off from Whitefish, Montana on April 9, 1969. The GN Flexible bus in Big Sky Bl... (more)

Just days before Amtrak Trains 5 and 6 “San Francisco Zephyr” would discontinue running through Wyoming over the U.P. and take the place of Rio Grande’s “Rio Grande Zephyr” through the R... (more)

When the station name comes off a station and is placed on a post, that’s a clue something is about to happen — Union Pacific’s station at Strasburg, Colo. was soon closed and moved away in ... (more)

Unfortunately Rock Island’s jaunty paint scheme on these 3 GP-38-2’s rushing its train west to Denver on U.P. trackage rights was not enough to save the railroad which a bankruptcy court order... (more)

As a BN train heads south on Colorado’s Joint Line at Fountain, a D&RGW unit coal train has emptied its loads at the Nixon Power Plant and is pulling out of the facility. It its consist are tw... (more)

Not to waste available motive power, CB&Q employed motor car 9769 as a PY Yard switcher at North Kansas City, Mo. May 29, 1965.

A Santa Fe grain train of 40-ft. box cars derailed at Bobville, Texas on June 6, 1973 because of small bridge washout in non-block signal territory.

Santa Fe eastbound Mail Train 8 blasts through Stafford, Kansas without even slowing down, and the Agent appears to be looking down, not watching the action or the RPO clerk in the first car comin... (more)