Sometimes, even after 41 years of railfanning, you see something you've never seen before.

In 1860, the B&O built a network of track along the waterfront at Fells Point in Baltimore to deal with an 1831 city ordinance prohibiting steam power on the streets. Preserved here at the B&O Ra... (more)

Waiting for the next cold winter at the roundhouse in clean fresh Big Sky Blue paint.

This one unusual railcar rebuilt from Dodge bus made in 1952 stopped at Misky`s place with a local service from Cochabamba city to Aiquile town. This service it`s very popular for farmers who sell... (more)

An interesting load, a pair of cracking towers from Hooper Welding in Oakville make their way into Hamilton for Railink.

Builder number 1,236 of the HK Porter Company of Pittsburgh, PA, is an industrial wood-burning, ten-ton 0-4-0T. She was originally built as a a twelve-ton 2-4-2T for the Rogue River Valley Railway... (more)

Haulin' "Big Joe". After a productive day of lining and tamping the track north of Alna Center, WW&F Road Foreman Dana Deering (green hat) takes his MOW Extra and crew south toward Sheepsco... (more)

Spare Power. Simmering on the passing track just below Marshfield Station, we find the day's spare power. Built in 1874 by the Manchester Locomotive Works, MWRC #6 "Kancamagus" is the olde... (more)

A crash damaged carriage is seen on it`s side, loaded on a flat wagon at Laksham Junction.

After the delivery of their new Korean-built passenger cars, Metrolink had enough of their older Bombardier coaches to convert many of them to bicycle cars by removing the seats on the lower level... (more)

Following my previous post showing a railway shunting horse beside a main line train here is another at Grantham having, appropriately, just shunted a horse box. He does not look too happy! Photo ... (more)

A relic from the Denver & Rio Grande Western is spotted at the top end of UP North Yard in Salt Lake City. The X-450 was built new for the D&RGW by Southwark-Baldwin in February 1945. The unique l... (more)

D&M GE 44T 10 was built for the M&STL as D742 in 1942, it was rebuilt by GE and sold to the D&M in 1956. D&M #10 normal asigment was at D&M's parent company STRAITS CORP BIG CUT quarry near Miller... (more)

Former Great Eastern Railway 'Claud Hamilton' class 4-4-0 No 8787 passes through Welwyn North station with an up Cambridge Buffet Express heading for Kings Cross, London at line speed as a humble ... (more)

This ex-MP unit carried its house on its back. Actually that is a rock deflection. And yes, there is a place called Big Rock, not nearly so famous as that aforementioned miniscule monolith.