"Track change from 1 to 2 allowing this view in Garrison" Amtrak Train 233 heading through the tunnel in former New York Central Territory. United Railroad Historical Society runs trips ... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 840 local departs Trident, Montana, on September 21, 2008. In the background on the other side of the Missouri River is the empty, abandoned grade of Milwaukee Road’s Pacif... (more)

Ex-Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines.

After departing Los Angeles, Amtrak train 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, arrived at its first stop, Fullerton, 20 minutes behind schedule. But this allowed the setting sun, which had be... (more)

The Colorado Railroad Museum's Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's #491 (2-8-2) gets backed into the roundhouse after spinning on the turntable.

BNSF 1826 (SD40-2 in old school paint) sits in the engine servicing yard in Denver, Colorado.

My, what big radiators you have
With all of the added emission restrictions over the last couple of decades, the cooling capabilities of modern locomotives demand larger radiators, culm... (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)

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)

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)

This shot rather landed in my lap due to an errant merge onto the "A" route thru, as opposed to around, town. Thought I was done for, but the train maintained a delicate speed and I was... (more)

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

Trestle Time: NS 4086 leads manifest train NS 118 eastbound over Coopers Trestle in Bramwell, West Virginia, along the NS Pocahontas District toward Bluefield, West Virginia.

Springtime lilacs are blooming in a roadside park as a southbound BNSF coal train passes an old water tank that once filled CB&Q steam locomotives with water at Gurley, Nebraska, on May 23, 2014.

Between Moose Jaw & Regina exists a sprawling network of industrial railroading in Belle Plain which partially includes Viterra's operations which can handle 135 cars of grain within their loop. ... (more)