Pointed at Starkey Hill, that winding grade close to town that is the start of the "Pumpkin Vine" line to Winston Salem, NC. Due to proximity and a grade nearing 1.7% Starkey has been t... (more)

Special train from ZRT Bahnreisen on the return journey from the day trip through the Black Forest. The journey led from Bern via Olten-Basel-Offenburg-Hausach-Black Forest line-Donaueschingen-Sin... (more)

The second San Gottardo adventure train of the year travelling uphill near Gurtnellen. The Ce 6/8 II # 14253 was built in 1919, which means it will be 105 years old this year.

In a boisterous thundering of smoke and power, K-36 480 shows off for the photographers of Dak Dillon's photo train at the famed cement wall just south of Cascade Canyon.

After running an excursion with a GE 25-ton and a single coach, the crew picks up the lunch train consist. Seen here firing up the locomotive, they will soon bring the train over to the platform ... (more)

The WW102 crew takes a single car down CSX trackage in downtown Winchester, Virginia to access the "Sandman Branch" where the customer, Continental, is located. The George Washington H... (more)

Just after sunset, CSX Transportation Dash 8-40CW 7680 and AC4400CW 134 lead an eastbound vehicle train along the banks of the Monongahela River on the CSX's Pittsburgh Sub. In the distance, just... (more)

Getting Topsy-Turvied. Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 locomotive no. 20 is seen on the turntable at the Colorado Railroad Museum as the crew "topsy-turvy themselves" - in their wor... (more)

The passengers of Amtrak number 5 are being treated to a pristine morning in the Sierra Nevada as they climb along the Truckee River in an area east of Truckee, CA known as Glenshire. Aside from t... (more)

The position light is vertical for the 6482 in this meet at Mapleton on the old PRR Middle Division in 1993.

Slowly grinding up the grade of the Crookton Cutoff at Williams, BNSF 6193 leads a Barstow, CA to Galesburg, IL manifest train up the 1% grade. With the wind howling, the Seligman Sub East Dispatc... (more)

Trestle Help: NS 4741 brings up the rear of a 3 pack of helpers, assisting manifest NS 118, as it makes a final push into Bluefield, West Virginia.

"HIGHBALL!": Reading & Northern T1 #2102, a 4-8-4 Northern, blasts out of Jim Thorpe, PA on the afternoon of May 25, 2024 enroute for Reading hauling the first Ramble of the R&N's 2024 p... (more)

Several times every year, the operational historic locomotives of SBB Historic in Olten are showed during "fitness runs" for preventing standstill damages. After the movements, the vehicles are no... (more)

13R heads across the B-Line through some Virginia wine/horse country on a Sunday evening.