E9As 9913 and 9902 stabled after the evening commute.

On a beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, CP 2816 makes its departure out of Pigs Eye Yard with a nice plume of smoke to boot. In charge of the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour, the "Empre... (more)

Golden Hour Empress The much-awaited return of steam to North Dakota was met with a phenomenal show from the whole CPKC crew. At golden hour, the CP Empress steam locomotive... (more)

Southern Railway train number 46, The Tennessean, is led by ALCO DL-109 6401 as it leans into the curve at Johnson City Tennessee in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

A fate worse than death? Maybe not but life was hard for an old unit on BS&G's makeshift railroads. One of the last truly ragtag old southern operations. Ramshackle "Snaptrack" laid on... (more)

Last of its Kind NS 8688 is the last GE Dash 8 on Norfolk Southern's fleet, and it'll probably stay that way for a while. Though it was retired in the late 2000s, this C39-8E found a new l... (more)

The daily run has pulled up for a new crew on the south leg of the wye and will soon join NS's former C of G line for the run south to Allbenny (AKA Albany) where C of G used to deliver beautiful ... (more)

New to NS , D9-44CW # 3926.

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The "Empress" crosses the Mighty Mississippi in Sabula, bound for Nahant Yard in Davenport.

Our 2nd storm of the season started getting going Friday morning. y the time it ended Saturday night, most of Iowa is in pretty bad shape. It was an impressive storm with a decent amount of wind a... (more)

The Iowa Northern had leased some LLPX units to help out while their power gets PTC installed back in 2020 These units have been pretty common on the local Waterloo switcher during the day time. H... (more)

Back Alleys. New York & Atlantic SW1001 no. 101 is seen moving train RS-40 through Long Island City, Queens as it serves industries along the Lower Montauk Branch. Overhead is the Green... (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)

Union Pacific Railway GP40P-2 1375 first showed up in Anaheim in November 2021 with no graffiti upon it. Roughly two-and-a-half years later, it looks like this. Built by EMD in November 1974 as ... (more)