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)

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)

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)

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)

"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)

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

The California Zephyr arrives in Denver and passes through the BNSF's engine servicing yard. An interesting visitor spotted in the yard is DOTX 221, a passenger car built in 1954 and now serving ... (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)

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)

The sun drops below the overcast and highlights the lush hillsides on the coastside. We haven't hand a a rainy season like this in years and can only hope the drought is over. The southbound Gaua... (more)

Quebec North Shore & Labrador Railway's first purchase of second generation units was six GMD SD40's built in 1968. The railway hauls iron ore from Schefferville to Sept Isles, Quebec and has no ... (more)