The searchlights at Benson are probably not long for this world, but they saw another sunrise on this morning. The West Local was having problems with them, however, as supposedly the signal in t... (more)

Santa Fe 5098-102-103-106-5950 are the power for this eastbound train between Warren and Cameron, CA. The power for this train was spotted in the yard at Richmond, CA the night before. I drove do... (more)

A colorful power consist leads the RVKCM east through West Gilluly as viewed from East Gilluly on the opposite side of Spanish Fork Canyon, Oct. 5, 1996. Track profile charts indicate the photogra... (more)

Ex-Erie EMD F3 and F7 units, Scranton, 1961. Erie and DL&W had merged less than a year prior to this shot. A few locomotives had E-L lettering applied. Taken with an old Vokar camera on Kod... (more)

MILW E81 along with E80 and E82 have reached the end of the line at Tacoma Tide flats Yard. These are three of the four Steeple Cab ES-2 class switchers Milwaukee owned. The E80 and E81 were built... (more)

After cutting out the helpers, Southern Pacific's NSGVC coking coal train departs 7440 ft. Soldier Summit the evening of Sept. 10, 1996. This would become my very last photograph of an SP train be... (more)

On its last-ever run this far north, the Alaska Railroad Palmer Turn runs light up the 10 mph Palmer Branch enroute to JD Steel, which was located at the end of the in-service track at more)

Three generations of conventional Amtrak electric power, consisting of an ACS-64, HHP-8, and AEM-7 (left to right), are displayed in Ivy City Yard, Washington DC in a historical gathering. Both th... (more)

The pantograph arcs against the electric wires above loco 45 at Didao mine near Jixi.

Forty years ago yesterday, I had graduated from a Kodak Instamatic to a brand-new Minolta SRT-101. I was running the first roll of film through it when I encountered this train on the CNJ-operated... (more)

An 8-car double deck 'V set' EMU pulls into Civic station in suburban Newcastle, just a few minutes into its 168km trip south to Sydney. This is an express service, and will cover the distance in ... (more)

An 'Endeavour' DMU set rolls into Newcastle station with a local service from the Hunter Valley. The Pacific Ocean can just be glimpsed in the background. At the time of writing, this scene is set... (more)

The sun is beginning to set on the FEC and CITX SD70M-2s that have worked hard pulling freight up and down the Florida East Coast. With the brand new GE ES44C4s having made their maiden run on the... (more)

FEC SD70M-2 101 leads FEC 416, which is sporting the new blue paint scheme, south towards Miami with train 109 in tow. Scenes of SD70M-2s pulling FEC trains will soon be a thing of the past with ... (more)