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)

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)

40 Years Ago This Weekend!

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)

Passing King Cole Bean Company. 1899 was the founding year of Genesse and Wyoming Railroad. This freshly painted GE bears the same number and was coupled with fresh EMD numbered 125 to honor the ... (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.

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)

Just after sunset, the World's Fair Daylight, a 13-car train pulled by former Southern Pacific GS-4 class 4-8-4 steam locomotive 4449, crosses over Fresno's Belmont Avenue. The train will ... (more)

The Bronx Point. On the land that was once the Erie Railroad Harlem/149 Street Station freight yard near on the Harlem River in the Bronx, New York, a new residential development has recent... (more)

The new veterans unit AGR 4423 leading NS 070 heading to Kimbrough from Mobile.

LNER 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' passes Cathiron with the 1Z72 0800 London Euston - Chester. Stock: 21096 17013 3045 3122 80044 3100 3148 3125 1863 3107 and Class 47 47828

CP 2816 rounds the curve at Elbow Lake, now only 40 miles from Glenwood. ILSX 919, the elevator switcher, is off to the right. Not much is known about the unit, but considering the fact SW9s were ... (more)

A once in a lifetime event produced purple skies the farthest south I’ve ever been alive for. Here is the southbound signal lit up for a northbound train at CP 106.

Sitting at the Rahway Valley enginehouse along with NJT E8A 4325.

L&N F7 802 leads a freight near Louisville Kentucky in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

North Yard. A variety of equipment is seen at Union Pacific Railroad's North Yard as SD70 no. 8463 meanders through with two other remote control locomotives.