Green and yellow geeps are shown rolling 101 through the tiny Bourbon County village of Hiattville on a beautiful late winter afternoon. Behind the modern diesels is a big train, and they're runn... (more)

The tunnel beneath the Southern that links the former CRR and C&WC required an approach from the south that was neither flat nor straight, as shown by this northbound train about to enter the tunn... (more)

PC4427 leads a freight onto the Northeast Corridor just south of Lane Tower on a snowy January day.

A patched NJT E60 leads a train that has just departed Newark's Pennsylvania Station, as seen from the location of the PRR South St. Station platforms.

Slave master SD40-2, MILW 22, replete with icicle breakers leads scheduled freight 202 east along Hyak siding, just east of Snoqualmie Pass tunnel and summit. The train is en route from Tacoma, WA... (more)

Candy canes were still in vogue back in 1982 on CP Rail's original action red scheme. CP 5701 bend around a curve as its train rolls by Saddle Rock siding near Yale, BC. Note the second unit has b... (more)

Back in 1991, Superfleet power dominated railfan interest as Santa Fe added a touch of class to their freight operations. GP60M shows off its flamboyant color scheme while waiting for servicing at... (more)

Its trip to Salina from the Colorado mainline at Gypsum almost over, a very short local crosses the through truss bridge over the Smoky Hill River. For many years MP ran scheduled local freights ... (more)

Not long after the UP takeover of WP it's units were reassigned to local service all across the UP. Here a pair are leading the morning UP Mead Local north on the San Pedro Branch on it's return t... (more)

A caboose hop from the Brownsville engine terminal has crossed the Monongahela River and is in the wye at the south end of the West Brownsville yard. After tacking the caboose on the end of a stri... (more)

Penn Central was less than a year old (and still solvent!) in December of 1968. A pair of GE E44 electrics still in PRR paint have brought a manifest over Newark Bay into the Greenville section of... (more)

A set of light Monongahela Super 7-23B’s pauses by the austere yard office in Maidsville, West Virginia. To the left, a track gang works, while their railroad-owned conveyances wait to take them... (more)

A CN-DWP-MILW Symington Yard (Winnipeg, MB) to Pig's Eye Yard (St. Paul, MN) run-through freight eases across the top deck of the DMIR interstate bridge at Oliver, WI. A highway uses the lower dec... (more)

CN SD40s nos. 5096 and 5100 show their stripes at Boston Bar, BC while waiting for their next assignment. While CN's 1961 black and red scheme was innovative, the added red cab, zebra stripes and ... (more)