Rio Grande and Southern Pacific ordered six 4000 HP diesel-hydraulic prototype units from Krauss-Maffei of Germany. Three Rio Grande #4001-4003 and three SP #9000-9002. Rio Grande kept them for ... (more)

ACELA, the fastest train in America flies over a lowly New York City subway N train at Ditmars Station in Astoria Queens. Lowly it is until you remember the N train and it's kin carry 5 million pe... (more)

The classic brick-lined tunnel (former NP) under Westminster on Main Track 2. Hard to imagine, but until the early 1980s this was double-tracked!

An extra runs south over the famous Shepherdstown bridge as cold air and warm water combines to create a blanket of fog on the Potomac River.

Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp rambles along the Garfield Branch at Bacchus Junction in West Valley City, Utah. This trio of classic first generation EMD's (GP9 5942, SD9's 5312 and 5310) were placed ... (more)

CN A416 heads through some foggy swamps west of Jasper as the sunrise hits the mountain peaks.

The day before Cal's last trip to the Rose Bowl.......

EMD A-B-B-B-A F units are ready to lead the GRAND CANYON west from Chicago. The unit number indicates that 30C is an F3 despite the F7 style dynamic brake fan. The unit is also displaying green fl... (more)

On Sunday 5 October 2014 at 1:04 pm, a north bound Union Pacific train struck a semi at about 45 mph that had been high centered on the crossing for approximately 2 minutes. The truck was carrying... (more)

Fog, trains, and early morning sunlight mingle at Murray West.

Two ex-C&NW SD40-2s head across the former Chicago Great Western lift bridge over the Mississippi River with downtown St. Paul as a backdrop.

BNSF 7687 fresh from GE with new logo (H3 paint) sits in Cicero Yard waiting to get to the facility.

Shortly after being released from the Chattanooga shops in Chattanooga,TN, the SOUTHERN heritage unit 8099 leads an empty hopper train in it's first trek through the Natural Tunnel. A true Souther... (more)

BNSF 274 leads a Seattle to Pasco manifest freight past Maryhill siding as Mt. Hood stands tall in the background.

MILW 261 powers a freight out of the yard past the stopped Olympian Hiawatha as seen from the Skytop Dome Cedar Rapids. The other patrons had gone into town to wait for the arrival o... (more)