Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, bisects one of the most dangerous (and soon to be replaced with an overpass) grade crossings in the country, Rosecrans, Marquardt and Stage (w... (more)

Once again, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief has become a hard-luck train. Amtrak train 3, with an abbreviated 5-car consist thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, departed Chicago, Illinois, on April... (more)

Executive train with all C&NW equipment at Portola.

Executive train with all C&NW equipment on the way to San Francisco.

BNSF geometry/track inspection train

The hard winter of 1977-78 knocked so many MBTA RDCs out of service with ice damage to their engines or transmissions that Boston & Maine GP7s were borrowed to provide propulsion and became a comm... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP7 that has been drafted into MBTA commuter service leads a Rockport-Boston train of depowered RDCs past the boarded-up tower in Lynn, MA, on its way to North Station.

An eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight is tucked in Cliff siding at Pinecliffe, Colorado, for the westbound Rio Grande Ski Train led by Rio Grande GP60 No. 3154 on the morning of Decemb... (more)

Making good time, this short UP special makes a quick crew change and continues heading south.

Clearly a passenger unit has died somewhere as CN 1229 an SW1200RS does it's best to hustle passengers to Toronto at track speed with a 4 car train. There was no steam generator in the consist. ... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific Office Car Special operating for the Board of Directors passes through colorful Red Canyon along the Colorado River between Dell and Range, Colorado, on September 28, 200... (more)

Preserved COHS railroad equipment on display at the C&O Railway Heritage Center's Smiths Creek Yard. Pictured is cosmetically restored SD40 #7534 and J3a 4-8-4 Greenbrier #614.

A manned geometry train slowly makes its way across the Colorado River at Topock, Ariz. as it prepares to stop and meet with M.o.W crews and other management personnel.

With the mountains of Rocky Mountain National Park and the Continental Divide in the background, a Union Pacific Office Car Special heads westbound out of Granby, Colorado, over the Moffat Tunnel ... (more)