Train #17, "The Plug", has discharged its passengers at the last stop in Joliet, and is now headed to the South Joliet Yard.

CSX manifest freight Q576 rolls down the quasi-street running in Downtown Lawrenceburg, Indiana, heading east towards Cincinnati, Ohio, on the former B&O Indiana Subdivision.

CSX's B761 local departs Troy, NY as it approaches Main Street. Until the closing of Troy Union Station in 1957, Troy hosted five railroads: the New York Central, the Delaware and Hudson, the Bos... (more)

This picture is one of my father's earliest pictures in the Twin Cities. He is standing on the Kellogg Boulevard overpass looking North towards Westminster Junction (the Lafayette Road bridge can... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

Most probably the Golden State. A Roger Puta Photograph

From the cab of the Sunnyland. I don't see many passengers waiting. Note the train order board shows orders so the firemen had to go into the depot and get them. Look closely, it looks l... (more)

NORMAN OK Oct 8 1979 -- With a contrail of the competition overhead the last southbound Lone Star comes to a stop. The train was discontinued by Amtrak a week earlier but a lawsuit forced Amtrak t... (more)

Westbound #5, the Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket, pulls into Joliet Union Station with two coaches and a very dirty E unit on the point.

Over two years after the Octoraro Railway purchased two RS2’s from the Toledo, Peoria & Western, the new owner still have made no attempt to place their own identification on the Alco’s. Here... (more)

Durbin WV, the land that time forgot. Once an important interchange point between the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Western Maryland railroads this station now serves as the base of operations for ... (more)

An eastbound cruises through Tryon after descending Saluda Grade.

Right on time, Burlington Kansas City Zephyr between Chicago and Kansas City has just crossed the Mississippi River into West Quincy, Mo. The 3rd car in the train is a round end parlor dining car... (more)

A typical midwestern scene -- Rock Island mail train No. 39 with a single coach on the rear leaves Herington, Kansas on May 31, 1965 to continue its run to Tucumcari, N.M. to be handed over to the... (more)

Branson Scenic's beautifully painted F unit trails the railroad's streamlined passenger cars through Hollister, MO. Though often overshadowed by the much larger tourism hub about a mile to the nor... (more)