A train of Pacific Northwest forest products heads for California markets on a Fall morning. The peak in the distance is Mt. Scott, the highest elevation in Crater Lake National Park.

NS 378 passes a Southern Railway search light signal.

Faded lady 5383 seems to have been basking in the sun too long, compared to its more vibrant cousins. This westbound J.B. Hunt container train is plodding upgrade past the Cosnino Road crossing be... (more)

A westbound freight accelerates out of Carothers Tunnel and past the CPLs that so defined former B&O territory at one time. Carothers is the westernmost of four tunnels that were part of the Magno... (more)

Former Pan Am, now B&E EDRJ coasts through Blue Barns Road with a near entirely empty mixed freight in tow.

Deep in the Potomac River valley, CSX 6406 brings an eastbound manifest out of the mountain and past the old color position light masts at Magnolia, WV on a spring afternoon.

They Restored It, and It's Entering The Main Line

Having her restoration completed, the Santa Fe 2926 enters the main line of the New Mexico Rail Runner / New Mexico Department of ... (more)

Montana Daylight
For several years, Montana Rail Link operated a passenger train on portions of its scenic routes called the “Montana Rockies Daylight,” commonly called “Montana D... (more)

A Westbound Union Pacific international container train is seen heading West at Tie Siding. The train has taken the Harriman Cutoff up from Cheyenne running on a restricted speed due to PTC proble... (more)

A nice EMD DPU brings up the rear of a coal train heading down the Big Sandy, under classic C&O signals.

Dash9s were as ubiquitous on BNSF as SD70Ms on UP. A pair of Dash9s and pair of SD40-2s power this westbound through Williams Jct., AZ on a winter late afternoon. Ektachrome.

CSX empty coal train E908 has reached the east end of its destination of Martin Yard as it passes by the signals at Arkansas, Kentucky and rolls on to the E&BV Subdivision. This train will tie dow... (more)

A rainy day look back through time... CSX's office car special heads for the 2018 Kentucky Derby, passing a set of L&N searchlight signals governing the interlocking at Patio, Ky.

A rainy day look back through time... The CPL intermediates at MP 134 display a pair of clear blocks after the passing of a westbound manifest on a cold, moonlit night along the B&O's Magno... (more)

A rainy day look back through time... A midnight meet on Magnolia... An eastbound autorack train meets a westbound manifest at the MP 130.4 intermediate signal bridge west of Great Cacapon.... (more)