Rio Grande’s ski train with newer equipment is only ten miles from Moffat Tunnel as it negotiates the narrow confines of Rollins Canyon near Rollinsville with three of owner Phillip Anschutzâ€... (more)

Originally built in 1961 for the Union Pacific Railroad, this car now runs thousands of miles with the Ringling Brothers Circus each year as a coach. The bearings on these cars were updated a numb... (more)

For the details of this CB&Q/CRI&P wreck see: http://railfan44.blogspot.com/2014/01/major-passenger-train-wreck-montgomery.html

Connection. Seen here on Conrail's Bloodgood Branch is two different sized rails welded together. While it looks like more of crude method compared to compromize joints, it still gets the job done... (more)

I have been coming to Southern Iowa and Northern Missouri since I was a boy to watch Santa Fe/BNSF trains race across the Marceline Sub. In 2013/2014 things changed as they always do with the rail... (more)

Originally constructed in 1928, the now-dormant Wabash Railroad Station on Delmar Blvd. in western St. Louis City awaits an uncertain future. Back in its heyday, outbound Wabash trains from St.... (more)

A former ACL box car basks in the morning sun at the North Florida Railroad Museum

This observation car was built in 1930 for the Reynolds family as the Winette, then became a MoPac business car and a SCL business car. Back into private hands for the Chicago Envelope company as... (more)

This was K080 one day after 19 cars derailed in the Boomer/ Mount Carbon area. No fatalities have been reported, and only damages besides the track is a burnt down home and truck. The cars were st... (more)

At 8:26AM February 2, 2015 would be the start of the Southern signals at Belton to be taken down as the lights went out. Here we see contractors cutting into the signal heads to take them down bef... (more)

For my 100th photo I'm going back to the basics, the steel rail and the tie that binds.

One of the best things to do in Ohio when its 0 degrees out, take timed exposure shots of the C&O signals along the Northern Sub at sunrise...

A Friday late-afternoon overview of the Bakersfield engine terminal reveals a lot of power on the servicing tracks. Most of the local power was rebuilt GP30's and GP35's.

Two Union Pacific employees inspect the track that caused a minor derailment in the Roseville Yard. Behind them, an overturned hopper car continues to drain "plastic sand" creating those... (more)

A slot train being used to clear brush holds in the clear as two locomotives from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum cross over ahead.