The power - three SD40s plus three B367s - kind of tells you that is probably an important CSX train sitting just beyond the signal. That doesn't matter, as the Southern (well, ok... NS) long-ran... (more)

Little Depot in the Sky

A top the highest active railroad in the United States is the Cumbres Depot, nee Section House, straddling the divide at Cumbres Pass, elevation 10,015 fe... (more)

At Union Pacific’s De Soto car shop in Missouri, two men break down a freight car truck to its individual components for rebuilding on September 29, 2011. Here they are removing the springs before... (more)

OUCH! A Sperry Railcar rear ended a stopped NS Freight with a helper and caused a lot of damage including injuring several people in the railcar. The 7240 was the unit hit on the NS train.

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 6704 is in the shop at South Morrill, Nebraska, for a engine change on September 15, 2017. The day before, a new prime mover was lowered onto the frame by the capable... (more)

Amtrak Charger no. 300 rolls into Chicago, trailing on the eastbound California Zephyr. There were plenty of clouds in the area, and the train itself was running about four hours late by this poi... (more)

Roosters get a day off at Verdant View Farm as the "Queen of Steam" welcomes daybreak with an impressive plume and a hearty whistle!

Southern went in big for the GP35, eventually owning 76. Five, including 244, were purchased for Central of Georgia, and stood out by having three-digit numbers and Blomberg trucks. The other 71... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

With loading completed at the Coronado Coal Co. Mine near Oakwood, Virginia, Norfolk Southern U52 departs through the complex on a misty mountain afternoon. NS AC44 rebuild 4392 brings up the rear... (more)

Donner Pass Shed 10 Climbing the granite Sierra Nevada Mountains is a battle that has existed since 1869. Chinese immigrant laborers hand chiseled this railroad to open America. The rail... (more)

The Colorado Fuel & Iron steel mill looms on the horizon over Santa Fe’s CF&I local returning to the Santa Fe yard in Pueblo, Colorado. The train is seen crossing the Salt Creek just east of the m... (more)

On the morning of July 23, 2011, Canadian National train 102 is east of Morris in the scenic Thompson River Canyon of British Columbia, with CN Nos. 2524 and 8878 powering the 5,656-foot eastbound... (more)

The LGSR crosses the Lehigh River with the last excursion of the day.

With a newly painted Amtrak unit to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amtrak, the Northeast Regional has just departed Roanoke and is seen here in Webster, Va.