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)

This Indiana Southern coal train is about to finish loading a coal at the Bear Run Mine. This mine is located outside of Dugger on the INRD. According to the web, the mine produced 6.7 million ton... (more)

Alco twins pair from Krishnarajapuram WDG3a headed by #13285 rolls down the scenic Shindawane ghats.

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Bringing up the rear of the World's Fair Daylight, a 13-car train of privately-owned passenger cars – all painted in Daylight re... (more)

Under the northern lights… Running south on the heels of Amtrak, Michael Hunt and Travis Elliot interrupt the silence of the night on 27A, as the aurora borealis fills the night sky with shad... (more)

CSX's Conrail heritage unit leads I02611 by the north end of Brownsand in Junction City, Georgia.

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Western Maryland had no FP7s but Canadian Pacific did and because of that we can see what a Western Maryland FP7 might have looked like, well, minus that round tank and ditch lights etc. In any c... (more)

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

UP 8147 (ES44AC) runs through Coal Creek Canyon as snow and fog moves into the valley.

Sandstone Sunsets: As the sun begins to set behind the mountains in Hinton, West Virginia along the New River, the Amtrak Charger 331 leads the westbound Cardinal into the night.

2816 bottoms the grade out of Anamoose making near her maximum, with a short climb to Martin and maintenance stop at Harvey ahead.

Kicking off National Train Day 2024 at 0100, southbound iron ore loads wait for a northbound empty as they cross paths at Biwabik under some impressive aurora borealis taking place in the sky abov... (more)

The "Gotthard Adventure Train" 31401 of SBB Historic from Erstfeld over the Gotthard mountain line to Lavorgo is crossing the 127 meter long and 53 meter high Chärstelenbach bridge betw... (more)

Scherer coal loads roll through the small community of Rex just outside of Atlanta behind BNSF SD70MAC #9653 & AC4400CW #5695.