West Coast Express F59PH 907 passes Maple Leaf Self Storage as it approaches its final stop of the morning at Waterfront.

Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)

On display at the Hoboken Railfest.

With both the "Virginian" and "Conrail" heritage units leading, 12Z pauses for a quick moment on the bridge while a motorboat races by the scene. The conductor may or may not have used this as a... (more)

The Royal Gorge, D&RGW First #1, is departing Denver Colorado in 1957. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Loaded iron ore train weighing around 43000 tons is seen here battling a 8km grade of 0.4% almost finishing its journey of near 1800km to the mines and back to São Luís.

2816 pulls out of it's fourth maintenance stop of the day, on top of meeting six trains, on the marathon run of about 320 miles from Minot, ND to Glenwood, MN. Here the Hudson says goodbye to Nor... (more)

An Old Soul In recent years, the MBTA has rebuilt its World War II-era PCC cars with modern Brookville parts. Though this car's appearance is straight out of the 1940s, it was recently ret... (more)

Ouch MBTA 3262 was damaged in a collision in 2017 and subsequently placed into storage at Mattapan. It has since been cut up and used to rebuild PCC #3260.

Canadian Pacific Railway 1433 is an MP15AC built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in December 1978 as Milwaukee Road 497. When the MILW was bought by the Soo Line after it went bankrupt,... (more)

UP 6926 leads a northbound MWCRVC between Silverwood and Hiland.

The Hagersville Sub road switch pulls as far as its gonna get with four empty centerbeams out, and 4 loaded lumber cars in at Nicholson & Cates. They will then shove back and head south to service... (more)

A pair of P42DCs recently repainted into Amtrak's new Phase VII scheme power the westbound Borealis along the Mississippi River west of St. Croix. This service began on May 21st, and offers one tr... (more)

The Union Pacific brought Challenger #3995 to the 2001 NRHS convention hosted by the St. Louis Chapter NRHS, shown here enroute to St. Louis. The convention paid homage to the 150th anniversary of... (more)

As the Marathon takes petroleum barges down the Ohio River, a grain train sails east high overhead