The shadows are long as the sun sets on the last run of Train 156, The Viger, from Montreal to Quebec City using conventional equipment.

“The Not-So-Ubiquitous Chessie GP40-2”
Sure, in the 80’s you couldn’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Chessie GP40-2. But this example was unique in that it was named, ... (more)

Scrapping the WW&F. It's 1936 and the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has been out of business for 3 long years. Salvage crews are finally in the process of lifting the rails th... (more)

Scrapping the WW&F. It's 1936 and the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has been out of business for 3 long years. Salvage crews are finally in the process of lifting the rails th... (more)

Scrapping the WW&F. It's 1936 and the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has been out of business for 3 long years. Salvage crews are finally in the process of lifting the rails th... (more)

Scrapping the WW&F. It's 1936 and the Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway has been out of business for 3 long years. Salvage crews are finally in the process of lifting the rails th... (more)

Cowan-2018 On a cool spring night a pair of 3400 series ET44AH's are assigned to work the pusher CSX J299-25 at the Cowan Yard in Cowan, TN the pair of motors, along with the crew... (more)

Heading west up the Indy side with an F7B and another geep. Joe McDaniels photo from a negative in my collection.

Nevada Northern Railway classic steam crane built in 1907 by the Industrial Works of Bay City Michigan host what appears to be a crew picnic on her boom. Steam Crane "A" was delivered new to the N... (more)

Done. Cut in half and piled at a local junk yard. Ex. VIA RDC's wait to finished off. These were bought by I.R.S. in Moncton with hopes to be rebuilt and used. Never Happened. Image taken with my... (more)

Penn Central train 72, a Buffalo-New York Empire Service run, gets underway for Grand Central out of the original Albany-Rensselaer station behind a pair of E-units. Tired-looking E7 4030 is an ex... (more)

Westbound empty hopper train 585 rolls through Oreton approaching East Stone Gap, Va. on a drizzly, foggy SW Virginia early spring day. Note that in an apparent tribute to his favorite Nascar driv... (more)

The Hogger Seat Engineer Jack Taylor is looking ahead in the hogger seat of the Tennessee Alabama & Georgia (TAG) 80 as he run the Missionary Ridge Local eastbound back to Grand J... (more)

Many years ago I purchased a number of negatives at auction that had been taken by the late O.S. Nock, the famed British railway author and signal engineer at Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Among... (more)

Nine tired NS war wagons head west for what will be their last trip out of Altoona. These units have been sold to Larry's Truck & Electric in Ohio and maybe someday, some of them will get a second... (more)