A Green Line train on the San Diego Trolley heads south from the heart of downtown and approaches the Convention Center stop.

Nickel Plate Road No. 759, a fan trip favorite in the 1960s and '70s, is brought back to life for one night at Steamtown National Historic Site. Jeff Adda poses with the big Berk as part of "... (more)

An Amtrak Piedmont train has just departed the station in Salisbury, N.C., on its way to Charlotte. The brick building is an old ice house.

Norfolk Southern's "original NS" and Norfolk & Western heritage units are in helper service as they push a train the final few miles into Bluefield in the Pocahontas coal fields.

A pair of classic U34CH locomotives await their next assignment outside the trainshed at Hoboken Terminal on a cold December day.

September 12, 2001 -- I was in Canada and the day before terrorists struck the U.S. There were almost no trains that ran on the Cartier on 9/11 and I spent most of the day in remote Quebec trying ... (more)

It's hard to believe that it's been a quarter of a century since the Blue Mountain & Reading was the hottest thing in tourist railroads in the northeast. Railfan weekends were a mob scene as a Rea... (more)

Solid booster segments from Thiokol Corporation in Brigham City, Utah, are on their way to join NASA's space shuttle in Florida. The train is making the quick run between two of the most scenic ca... (more)

Norfolk & Western No. 611 stomps along its old home ground, passing under the coaling tower at Vicker, Va. This was the Powhattan Arrow excursion sponsored by the Roanoke Chapter NRHS. No. 611 ran... (more)

Morristown & Erie No. 14 switches in Roseland as part of a "Working On the Railroad" excursion sponsored by the Jersey Central Railway Historical Society.

A CSX ethanol train has departed SMS Rail Services and is heading north on Conrail Shared Assets as it crosses Raccoon Creek on a moveable bridge. Much to our surprise, the conductor got off the t... (more)

An eastbound Roadrailer crosses the diamond past abandoned Leipsic Tower on the former Nickel Plate. Leipsic is a busy junction city with two diamonds where the east-west ex-NKP crosses the ex-Cin... (more)

An inbound two-car train of Strafford cars meets an outbound Brill Bullet car on the Philadelphia & Western (SEPTA's Norristown High Speed Line) on a hot July day in 1981. The two-car Strafford se... (more)

A northbound train heads across the causeway north of Cold Spring on its way to Poughkeepsie on a pleasant spring day. Despite the New Haven paint on the locomotive, this is ex-New York Central te... (more)

A two-car set of former Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines RDCs roll south on home rails past the former depot/tower at Wildwood Junction. In days gone by, these two cars may have arrived at this... (more)