Formed in 1998 as a successor to the old Harbor Belt Line, the Pacific Harbor Line is a Class III railroad that serves the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest harbors in the Western h... (more)

A First Coast GP38-2 is seen moving cars between tracks on a beautiful Florida Fall Afternoon.

Plant power for Alton Steel takes it easy on this beautiful afternoon. We have a pair of Gulf Coast Rail Services SW1200's and a GP9R that still wears Grand Trunk paint. The two SW1200's are forme... (more)

Today marks the 20-year anniversary of CN's purchase of Great Lakes Transportation that included the DM&IR, B&LE, Great Lakes Fleet and Conneaut Dock Company. Iron ore loads arrive at Proctor fro... (more)

A street fair is interrupted by a heavy manifest as it crosses the Cuivre River at Old Monroe, Missouri.

Back in 1993, the Cedar River flooded out the CNW mainline around Cedar Rapids. Mainline trains ended up making the slow trek thru downtown Cedar Rapids for a few days. Later this day, the trains ... (more)

A BNSF intermodal drifts down and around the famed Tehachapi loop under a mid morning storm.

RS-11 1804 and PA-1 190 get time in the sunshine this morning.

KANSAS CITY KS Sept 29 1979 – With complete shutdown only months away Rock Island GP7 4540 sits at the Armourdale Yard sanding facility. According to www.utahrails.net the unit started life as C... (more)

Random snapshot during a visit to the open depot day at the Brugg AG railroad park, with the oil-fired 2-8-2 steam locomotive 141 R # 1244, built by the Montreal Locomotive Works in 1946 for the F... (more)

Bonus train! 2816 took a while at the border and ended up meeting 149 at Spiral, west of Kenmare. Nearly 12,000 feet of 149 is visible as it passes Middle Des Lacs Lake on the run for the border... (more)

A late CPKC 113 allows a rare opportunity to catch an afternoon westbound at Spicer East.

CP 2816 approaches Tower B17 on the final stretch to Bensenville Yard just outside of Chicago on the CPKC Final Spike Steam Tour. Too bad the KCS is hardly represented on this train other than a f... (more)

Mass Central GP38-2s 1751 and 1750 switch out the Palmer, MA yard at milepost 83 along the old B&A.

The rugged terrain of Wyoming's Bighorn Basin is shown off here at Sheep Canyon, one of several canyon's that BNSF's Casper Subdivision cuts through. Seen here, BNSF's Cowley Turn, a local operati... (more)