US Sugar #148 was restored to its original FEC appearance this weekend as part of a photography charter that ran between Lake Placid and Lake Harbor along the South Central Florida Express mainlin... (more)

Electric cogwheel snow blower locomotive He 2/3 # 8 of the Rigi Railways in operation on Rigi Staffel. There is more snow than ever this winter towards the end of April. The three-axle locomotive ... (more)

In the early 90s, my mother and I made a lot of trips to Galesburg for railroad days. It was some of the 1st places we went and seen major train action. The BNSF merger would make Galesburg the hu... (more)

A westbound UP stack train is passing in front of the old Marceline station, which is now the Walt Disney Hometown Museum.

CN 500 is shoving cars for the Port of Montreal out of Pointe St-Charles Yard. The caboose at right had just been used for a shove move with grain empties. In the foreground are stored Comet cars.

The St. Paul to Kansas City daily freight train had some unusual motors in the consist. A pair of CP hydrogen locomotives are dead in tow. Each locomotive is painted in a unique paint scheme for t... (more)

A Westbound Chicago to San Bernardino passes under the classic Santa Fe signal bridge at New Boston on the Marceline Sub. These signals were retired on October 1, 2019, and the bridge was removed ... (more)

Led by a quartet of GE C44-9Ws, Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Denver to Stockton manifest freight climbs out of Rocky, Colorado, on April 23, 2002. In the background sits an eastbound Union Pac... (more)

Grupo Mexico Transportes liveried 820 leads the 202 through St Augustine. A careful observer will note the GP40-2 2nd behind the lng tender.

The BNSF merger was getting closer to reality by May 1995. Galesburg was about to become a major hub in the east with this merger. Lots of things would change, but for now the BN was as is with th... (more)

CPs 8WWA ballast train rumbles over the wooden Crawfish River bridge on a cold and windy spring afternoon. Todays train sports a trio of six-axle EMDs.

Empties at Two Harbors do not leave the way they came in. I believe that's due to the headroom issue at Two Harbors, loads are dumped and then shoved towards an outbound yard. Empties then depart ... (more)

ALCo - A rarity now

After Railway board's descision to discontinue ALCos from mainline service, first time spotting an ALCo with express train

Th BN tested 4 SD60MAC's and then later in 1993 they placed an order for 350 SD70MAC's. The SD60s were the test bed to what became a huge investment in the coal power fleet with the purchase of th... (more)