In the 90s, Amtrak actually serviced a purpose. They ran trains and hauled some mail. Here, the Southwest Chief roars east at Stronghurst on the Chili Sub with a decent size train. Scanned Slide f... (more)

2816 crossing a Soo lettered bridge just east of Barrett on the home stretch to Glenwood at the end of a marathon run of about 320 miles.

July 28, 1978 - South Amboy, NJ - Having turned a rail with its train, Raritan River SW900 #6 has disconnected from its train and pulled forward to wait for additional help to arrive. We had been ... (more)

UPY 1403 and UPY 1296, a pair of MP15DCs, sit at the port in Granite City. They will eventually be repainted in UP themed colors and renumbered at PHRR 1403 and 1296. The other unit is a GP40 al... (more)

CSX 4571 leads M316 across the Shortline Sub towards Cumberland Maryland

Two locomotives of the e428 group of the State Railways are preserved at the Luino station by the Verbano Express Association; number 174 was built in 1939 with a semiaerodynamic case, 208 in 1940... (more)

BNSF 2530 (GP39-3) moves a cut of wood cars to clients in Lafayette, Colorado.

Leaving Boston Massachusetts at 35 MPH on August 17th 1937. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

This was a 396 into Moose Jaw then seemed to linger outside town one morning as I caught it in motion after meeting some westbound traffic near Belle Plain. In a week's time, this was the only &q... (more)

Photography From Pollepel. One of the more famous landmarks in the Hudson River is Bannerman Island Arsenal on Pollepel Island near Fishkill, New York. One of the lesser photographed views ... (more)

The CN usually keeps their executive train parts indoors at the Woodcrest Shops at Homewood. I took a tour back in 2012 and the 103 was parked out back with the cars. I am unsure the fate of the 1... (more)

Eight bovine agree....the eighth (of ten) such steam locomotives delivered to FEC in April 1920 looks right in 2024...it may be 4/20, but you are seeing things right....for the weekend, US Sugar r... (more)

End of Standard Gauge. Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 no. 20 is seen leading a train around the 3' gauge loop at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden, CO. The train is nearing the end - or... (more)

Through the Fields. On the second day of the charter, the FEC 148 pulls a cane train through the many properties of U.S. Sugar Corporation.

Indiana Railroad SAHW in Bargeresville