When O.S. Nock visited Miyazaki depot he had the good fortune to find this C57 Pacific bedecked with two Japanese flags and a golden chrysanthemum after working the Imperial train. Within hours it... (more)

Ghost in the night
Chicago & North Western Alco C628 sits under a ghostly coaling tower on a foggy night in Escanaba, Michigan, in October 1984.

A westbound Santa Fe intermodal train zips across the impressive Canyon Diablo Bridge at Canyon Diablo, Arizona, on April 19, 1990. Four GE B40-8s (Nos. 7419, 7418, 7440 and 7421) along with an EM... (more)

On a hazy afternoon filled with smoke from forest fires, a westbound Modoc Line train rounds Likely Loop. Within a year, operations here would cease. The trackage was dismantled in 2003.

Since 1909, the 240-foot clock tower of the former New Haven Railroad station in Waterbury, CT, has been a local landmark. The tower was modeled after one in Siena, Italy, that had caught the att... (more)

Westbound Nickel Plate Road freight with GP35 No.910 leading three GP7s and two GP18s at Bellevue, Ohio. August 28, 1965. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

“Short of a Full Deck”
This unusually short CSX trailer train, with Chessie System/B&O GP40-2 4438 as the sole power, is westbound approaching Poplar (mp 82.5) on CSX's (former B&O) ... (more)

HISTORIC LINEUP... The only surviving Erie Lackawanna U34CH is parked outside of the Star Track restoration building in Boonton, N.J. This locomotive is part of the United Railroad Historical Soci... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight passes through Leeds, Illinois, on a sunny April 22, 1995. The train is crossing rural East 8th Road grade crossing, protected on the southern approach by this battere... (more)

Running elephant style, a Rio Grande SD50 and two SD40T-2’s lead an eastbound freight onto the post-1983 alignment of the main line near Thistle, Utah. A huge mudslide and subsequent flooding wi... (more)

Oregon, California & Eastern's first train of the summer 1988 season approaches the West Switchback. Note the train's caboose in the distance.

After shooting westbound Rio Grande train 197 in cloudy light at Cotopaxi, Colorado, we chased it to the vicinity of Salida,... (more)

“Long Gone”
Long gone are the CPLs, cabin cars, front runners, and the friendly wave. With RF&P GP40-2 146 plus three on the head end, Chessie System/C&O extended vision caboose (90)... (more)

BC Rail's RDC passenger service from North Vancouver, BC to Squamish/Lillouett/Prince George started with a trip along the cliffs above Howe Sound. Here the two car train bends around the cliffs a... (more)

We went up to catch the Dry Valley Railroad operation by Soda Springs, Idaho. They had recently started using a couple Alaskan F units. When we got there we found their former power lying in a pil... (more)