The Memorial Day line up at the Waukegan coach yard towards the end of the blue hour.

Three General Electric motors descend down the Palmer Divide, through Downtown Colorado Springs, with the Seattle, Q-train as an empty coal train holds the siding. While the the train is a classi... (more)

Pacific Transportation Services was a Tacoma, WA, locomotive dealer that owned this Fairbanks-Morse H10-44, parked along the Tacoma waterfront back in 1982. PTS 122 was built for the log-hauling C... (more)

Union Pacific 1989 leads a Rock & Rail train out of the Royal Gorge.

Left to right: Conductor Timothy Bell, general manager & locomotive engineer Reid Dawe, President & CEO Robert, J. Riley and director of customer service & sales Terry Redeker pose for a picture i... (more)

WAMX 4177 is at the very end of the active rail on the Reedsburg Sub. A train has not been West of this point in over 10 years.

Loaded with coal bound for Public Service of Colorado’s Cherokee plant in Denver, Rio Grande Train 702 approaches Oak Creek, Colorado.

Right train at the right time. The gamble paid off on Monday, May 25, 2020 as with reduced service during the pandemic, the sweet evening light does not fall upon many trains. Late report of NJ Tr... (more)

The Central Wisconsin Railroad was a fairly short-lived operation that in 1980 took over Milwaukee Road trackage west from Waukesha, WI, to Milton Junction and later expanded. Most of its diesel f... (more)

Meet Mr. Robert Riley, founder of Rock Island Rail who has brought his dream of a modern day Rock Island to life but in the Mississippi Delta region. On May 23, 2020 a special run was operated to ... (more)

Canadian Pacific F94 is passing through St Jean Qc. This train interchanged with the Central Maine & Quebec Ry at Iberville.

A set of four Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2 helpers, spliced by a fuel tender, have just cut off the rear of a coal train, crossed over and are now headed back to Crawford to assist another coal ... (more)

OCS - The Pan Am Railways Office Car Special is making its journey with classic F units through downtown Lowell, Mass.

KN380 rolls into West Virginia, crossing the Ohio River with Point Pleasant now under its wheels. Completed in 1885, this bridge has carried countless cars from several railroads, and hopefully it... (more)

Eight locomotives lead westbound Union Pacific MNYGJ (Denver’s North Yard to Grand Junction) manifest freight out of Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, on March 23, 2002.