Troublesome Gensets MBTA's duo of gensets idle at the BET. These two units are plagued with engine issues and are rarely used for operations that aren't within a few miles of somewhere the... (more)

A regional train La Spezia Centrale - Levanto just departed from Vernazza, one of the UNESCO World Heritage listed "Cinque Terre" villages. The station is located in a tunnel. The open... (more)

Tacoma Rail's Hill job is on it's way to Fredrickson. This trip the crew has 14,600 horsepower to lug the 15 cars up the 3.65% grade that awaits them once they leave Sound Transits Lakewood Sub.... (more)

The sun continues to dip down in the western sky above the Big Horn Mountains as an eastbound empty BNSF grain train from Kalama, Washington, scoots along State Highway 345 between Parkman and Ran... (more)

Built by the mighty PRR in the 1950s, the former Sam Rea Car Shop still stands as a mix-use industrial park. Curry Supply Holdings leases about 1/3 of the building for two of their divisions, Curr... (more)

On April 28th, 1992, an eastbound APL stack train derailed at CP 237 in Utica, destroying the interlocking. Kids in the area had put debris on the tracks ( possibly a shopping cart ) which got wed... (more)

In a rare unobstructed view of the former CN F7A, RPCX 9177 sits in the Shenandoah Valley Railroad yard on an absolutely frigid night in Staunton, VA. This locomotive was originally acquired to be... (more)

It's a quiet Saturday at the Norfolk Southern Yard in Williamson, West Virginia. A pair of GE's await their next assignment and a loaded coal train awaits a new crew, but much of this former N&W y... (more)

We're at the National Railway Equipment's facility in Dixmoor as the scrapper is hard at work, taking apart Illinois Central SW14 #1435. USSX SW1200RS #59's tragic end would follow within 24 hours... (more)

East bound freight at Steventon with the Bridge of the Gods in the distance

These 2x2x2 unusual coal trains on the BNSF are a product of where the trains must go. These trains go to the CP at Ottumwa and on the CP they must transverse the 1.8% Rutledge Hill to get out of ... (more)

A massive deadline of General Electric power looks on as the only two coal empties in Hobson Yard are serviced.

A Barstow to Tulsa manifest train leaves the Needles area as spring rain shower forms over the Mohave Valley area; seen from Park Moabi. With the division point changing to the state line, is sect... (more)

This looks worse than it actually was. BNSF train B-BIRLAC3-12A, a baretable train (empty intermodal cars), heading from Birmingham AL to Los Angeles, was going to set some of these cars out on a... (more)

On Day of the Dead, the local train "pulls the strip" with a cemetery lit by candlelight in the foreground.