When I climbed on top of this hill, I saw for the first time the Santa Fe derailment that happened just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass, and at first glance it looked like it was from an HO mod... (more)

Bridge 710, which has been out of service for more than a decade, looms in the background as CN train L512 is seen spotting cars at the Port of Chicago.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Stacks from Long Beach, CA to Memphis, TN negotiates the tight curves of Crozier Canyon as the sound of three GE prime movers battling the grade echo throughout the canyon.

BINGEN WA Sept 27 1978 — Burlington Northern GP35 2511 leads a mixed freight west on the Fallbridge Sub. Rolling trains were rare as this was in the middle of a nationwide railroad strike. My ph... (more)

Norfolk & Western SD40-2 6162 idles alongside Family Lines System C30-7 7067 at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation’s yard in Ravenna, KY, showing off its fresh repaint back into its original 19... (more)

With one of the 7000's needing work done, the E unit was utilized to help pull freight north from Valdosta overnight. Typically this does not happen to keep her running well for passenger excursio... (more)

Coal drag from Eagle Butte Mine, Wy to Fayette Power Plant, Tx passes through the diamonds at Saginaw, Tx at restricted speed. This would be one of the last few trains that would pass through thes... (more)

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

Two Union Railroad trains meeting on a bridge.

On 1/18/2024, FEC unveiled their new paint scheme with locomotives 820 & 816. They have been rebuilt and had this new variant added to reflect the GrupoMexico corporate image. They plan to do th... (more)

CSX 6914 sporting a new Chessie System nose logo. This was not done by CSX.

It’s a rainy day at Montana Rail Link’s Helena Roundhouse, as MRL Machinist Kevin Leonard takes a call as he reflects on what these new EMD locomotives will mean to his job after changing the ... (more)

Three trains awaiting crews, back in the days of coal, as the sun weakly peers through the humid haze draped over the Appalachian hills. "It's going to be another scorcher", as the old ... (more)

DALE WY Oct 17 1977 — Union Pacific DDA40X 6920 has just crossed the Dale Creek Fill on its westbound journey to Laramie and offers this angle as it passes below. EMD built the unit (b/n 3546) i... (more)