The RJ Corman "Alcan Express" aluminum ingot train roars across the Kentucky River at Ford, nearing Winchester, KY.

BN 6118 stopped briefly at the Mora, MN depot and a crew member is about to climb back on board. The job was the Brook Park turn out of St. Cloud, MN and the crew had left their train in Brook Par... (more)

A rather unique SD40-2 of Colorado Southern vintage, 7840 along with 7149 were rebuilt as dual-fuel locomotives able to run with LNG or diesel and classed as DF40-2s, however, the 7890 is back to ... (more)

A lone AC4400 is on the rear of a loaded GALX coal train as it rolls over the massive Arnold Fork Viaduct in Knott County, Kentucky. It's been a while since I can recall a GALX train in these part... (more)

Appalachia "Coal and Railroad Days" 2023!!

It must be an officer's special eastbound crossing the ATSF and GM&O.

Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Elliston Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

An NS SD70M-2 and UP SD70M just climbed out of Raleigh with a loaded phosphate train out of Lee Creek. They're now cruising down CSX's Aberdeen Sub to Fetner, where they'll reenter NS rails bound ... (more)

On the date the F40PH must have failed and had to be dragged in. I always wondered what happens when HEP fails and there is no backup. Do the cars have some way of generating heat? Important to... (more)

Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads 120 cars west through Oakvale West Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

“Five Day Work Week”
Four of the five F9PHs rostered by the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) are laying over for the weekend in the yard at Brunswick, late in the afterno... (more)

CRI&P 218 and mates lead a freight through Colorado, near Castle Rock, sometime during the 1960s. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

After an overhaul and repaint, Amtrak 192 is out on the road again. Heading east leading the Capitol Limited. A pair of Phase VII ALC-42s numbers 330 and 331 hitch a ride to DC, where they will be... (more)

For Railroad Daze at Franklin Park Illinois, one of Metra’s new SD70MACH locomotives powers the special from track 4 to 3 before reversing back to Western Ave Yard.

Another CSX Heritage unit makes its way over the Lineville Subdivison. A little over a day prior, this Chesapeake & Ohio Heritage scheme engine, brought autoracks north on train M222. Now headed ... (more)