Curtain Call

Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611 makes its final approach to Esbenshade Road as power for a Strasburg Rail Road train. It will soon be headed back to its owners, the Virg... (more)

A Sad Day at Strasburg

Today, I saw reports that Strasburg’s ex-Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 had an encounter with some MOW equipment at Leamon Place, resulting in a damaged smokebox,... (more)

I spent today enjoying the present-day rarity of big steam pulling a heavy train on a main line. For the westbound leg of RBMN’s fall foliage excursion featuring 4-8-4 2102, I elected not to cha... (more)

The lineup at CP Rail’s Smiths Falls, Ontario engine terminal is dominated by MLW power, including two C424’s, an RS-18, an RS-23, and an S3. The lone EMD is one of only 26 GP35’s to be sold... (more)

Boston & Maine F7A 4265 stands partially restored at the New York State Fairgrounds at Syracuse. Today, the covered wagon languishes in Gorham, New Hampshire.

A Denver-bound Santa Fe manifest skirts Palmer Lake in the Colorado town of the same name. The power consist is unusual, having three four-axle GE’s. Another notable feature is “D&RG 433”, a... (more)

Travelling between Monument and Palmer Lake, a Denver=bound Santa Fe manifest negotiates an S-curve on Colorado’s Joint Line.

A Santa Fe caboose punctuates a string of empty CWR cars leaving Palmer Lake, Colorado. The rock formation in the upper left is Palmer Lake’s Elephant Rock.

The open door policy indicates that the lead GP50 on this Santa Fe freight is giving the crew trouble as the train passes through Palmer Lake, Colorado.

After waiting for a Denver-bound train to clear the Joint Line’s single-track segment, a Santa Fe trainmore)

After a Denver-bound train. has passed, a Santa Fe crewman leaves his roll-by position and returns to tis power, which will... (more)

A Santa Fe manifest waits for clearance to enter the Joint Line’s single track as an opposing train headed by a Missouri Pacific SD40-2 arrives from the south. Although the Joint Line still sees... (more)

Not related to the current Indiana Eastern, the original Indiana Eastern served the towns of Shirley, Knightstown, and Carthage, Indiana. The slide is not labelled with a location, but I believe t... (more)

Back in the times whim Genesee & Wyoming orange was limited to a small area in upstate New York, G&W RS1 42 idles in the yard in Retsof, New York.

Two Amtrak roster rarities stand together at the Ivy City terminal in Washington, DC. Amtrak 47 was one of three Washington Terminal RS1’s that received Amtrak’s Phase III paint scheme. Amtrak... (more)