It's a busy afternoon at Oakville, the yardmaster on the phone with one of the yard crews at Aldershot discuss how good or bad shape the yard will end up later tonight. As you can see my power sit... (more)

Three tank cars, one of which was breached and burned, in the James River, the day after the fiery oil train derailment in downtown Lynchburg.

While many of the NYC era signal bridges have disappeared over the former Water Level Route, some reminders of the past can still be found such as this overpass at River Road. Last painted in 1955... (more)

The Ferry Yard office located on the former Ann Arbor mainline was a fixture on the railroad. The office was small and served the yard and crews as designed. However, after the end of the Ann Arbo... (more)

The CSXT Mountain Sub is 112 miles long and runs from Grafton, WV, to the Cumberland Terminal, MD. Along the route manned tower use to help train movements in the ABS double area. All these towers... (more)

Taken from ontop of the Samish Overlook, a northbound M-PASVBT manifest train rolls through the small community of Bow. You can see the major roadway of Chuckanut Drive on the right.

These are the ore cars that haul the ore that builds the country. On the left is a northbound train of BNSF ore cars led by BNSF 6864 bound for U.S. Steel, Minntac and on the right is a southboun... (more)

As the clouds and cold wind move in off Lake Superior on a late November afternoon, the two man crew working at Holcim Cement wrap up the days duties of unloading a ship and then loading and stag... (more)

A lucky catch finds this 1940's era EMD 'outside the gate' at the Kuhlman bulk facility along the Maumee River in Toledo.

An eastbound CSX manifest lights up the clear indication at the east end of Thrumond.

A half-mile below the surface at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park, home to Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine, visitors get to take a 3/4 mile train ride to the last and deepest area mined-lev... (more)

Part of the display at the Soudan Underground Mine State Park which is home to Minnesota's oldest iron ore mine. Once ore left the crusher house, it traveled up the conveyor (located in the encl... (more)

EL's tug Elmira slips past the ferry John is riding revealing the mail and express tracks of the EL Hoboken Terminal. These boxes arrived on long distance passenger trains which were being elimin... (more)

Days before the end of ferry service by EL, the commuters from Hoboken to Manhattan via ferry started here on the New Jersey side of the river.

A partly cloudy night sky is the perfect scenery for this meeting of two BNSF intermodal trains.