Amtrak is working to perfect hovercar technology for 2015...or 910 is in the shop for an overhaul. Resting on jacks while her trucks are rebuilt, and new wheels installed. Hard to believe just 3 s... (more)

Built by Disney, WP 804-A is a faux FP-7 built from the scrapped cab of UP 928, an E-8. In August 2011, the train which housed an ice cream shop was removed and donated to the Western Pacific Rail... (more)

Inside the dining parlour of the Delamere at Lake Louise Station. Built in 1925. Note the beaver handle on the dessert/bar cart. There is also a beaver crest on the stand on the right.

"Our Greatest Asset Is People," as noted at the bottom of the unique old Chessie Shops sign in Cumberland.

Three Rio Grande GP40-2s on Union Pacific’s West local are heading back to Denver’s North Yard light power and pass a Colorado Operation Lifesaver display at Simms Street grade crossing in Arv... (more)

The curve through Loachapoka is superelevated, which is great for southbounds running downhill at 50+, but tough on the lower, inside rail when northbounds drag up the grade at 10-12 mph. This so... (more)

Two EMD SD70Ms wait for work at Union Pacific’s Downing B. Jenks Shop in North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 19, 2015. No. 5090 has the “standard” SD70M cab, while sister No. 5155 is equippe... (more)

Perhaps the very last piece of rail equipment to grace the rails of the turntable at the Mon-Con roundhouse, the Youngstown Steel Heritage hi-rail truck basks in the sun of an unseasonably warm Ja... (more)

Florida East Coast Railway train 226-24 had the new FEC LNG Fuel Tender in the consist of the train - FEC #300 - as seen crossing the San Sebastian River at St. Augustine, FL on January 25. The c... (more)

The 1996 Olympic Torch Relay passenger train and cauldron car crest 6824 ft. Wahsatch summit on the road to the Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia.

Not certain what happened here, but this tank car sits along the siding in Sabalon CA on the Arizona & California, in a location only accessible by dirt roads. Kind of look like my room did when I... (more)

The crew of steam-powered Nevada Northern Wrecking Crane A pose with their charge in the yard at East Ely, Nevada, on February 5, 2006.

Snow storm Jonas was New York City's second biggest snow fall ever recorded. In spite of that, Amtrak kept it's NYC-Albany Empire Service going. Here 713 is slowly pulling west in Sunnyside Yard a... (more)

I have read the tales of Richard Steinheimer in the mountains, chasing elusive trains in unbearable weather. Well, I had some adventure today, even if it was in Queens, New York, where the only ... (more)

British Columbia Railway General Electric C40-8Mu locomotives gather at the engine facility at North Vancouver, British Columbia, on a rainy September 26, 2001. BCR had 26 of these cowled GEs that... (more)