Paducah & Louisville's GP38-2 3810 and 3800 wait for a signal to proceed south to Osborn yard with the CSX transfer. In the foreground are party caboose used by patrons during the University of Lo... (more)

The Closest of Calls!: After building their train and pulling through the wye, the OCS train comes to a brief stop on a quiet portion of Sixth Street. As it sits in the street, a bold ... (more)

Passing Starlights. The daily ritual, at least when both trains are on time, takes place in front of the beautifully resorted Southern Pacific freight house here in San Luis Obispo as Amtra... (more)

A day after being involved in a wreck due to a rock slide near Isom, CSX #61 sets on the siding at Blair Branch until another train or crew moves it away. This loco was still running at the time o... (more)

On one of the nicest Easter Sundays in the Chicago area in decades, a UP SD70ACe-T4 sits at the EMD LaGrange facility.

EMDX Demonstrator 90 sits at EMD's LaGrange Plant.

Norfolk Southern dynamic brake slug RPU6D #892 tags along with SD33ECO #6210 to work a cut of cars at the north end of Brosnan Yard. The RPU6D slug provides additional tractive effort as well as d... (more)

A pair of CP GEs haul Canpotex potash loads across the Joso Bridge spanning the Snake River near Lyon's Ferry State Park, WA. The fresh paint on the two rebuilt AC4400CWMs contrast the dusty land... (more)

Just around the corner from where the Not-Quite-As-Mighty Willamette River joins the Mighty Columbia River in Portland OR, is the Columbia Grain Facility. In this scene the bulk ship Mamma Mia is... (more)

When key components on freight cars fail and the subsequent repairs can’t be made at the location said car is set out, then you got to improvise a temporary solution to get the car running again. ... (more)

"This here is one of our finest," said the UP Manager. In a staged scene part of the annual night photography session at the Rail Giants Train Museum in Pomona, a Union Pacific executive p... (more)

Deer! Its spring in the south as a pair of deer wander across the rickety tracks of the Mississippi Central. In the background MSCI 488 slowly approaches with a cut of cars from storage going sout... (more)

I am not a big fan of Silverliner IVs, but the scene caught my eye. A Walter Schopp original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

An Amtrak Acela Express, led by AMTK No. 2031, races west through Bensalem, Pennsylvania backlit against the glow of a rising Winter Sun. The train is en route to Philadelphia and is just shy of ... (more)

A rebuilt GP20 (originally GP9 #2399) leads an eastbound Hiawatha, IN to Louisville, KY trackage rights train down the former Monon (now L&N) street running in New Albany, IN. These rails, while s... (more)