A westbound BNSF manifest freight makes its way across the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille linking Sandpoint with Algoma, Idaho, on a perfect October 6, 2018. More recently, the new bridge has ... (more)

For two consecutive weekends the Welded Rail Train dropped rail on the mainline between Calverton and Manorville. When crews weren't working, the train was laid up on the Calverton Spur which is t... (more)

Re 420 # 279 (Re 4/4 II # 11279) of the SBB, with fold-up automatic coupler, pulls the mail train 50136 from Cadenazzo via Bellinzona-Gotthard mountain line-Erstfeld-Arth Goldau-Lenzburg-Olten to ... (more)

With airfare to Newark being 50% of airfare to Philadelphia, I flew into New Jersey for a cousin's wedding in Delaware. Doing so did give me the chance to ride the train to Wilmington and to get a... (more)

Shunting locomotive Geaf 2/2 # 20606 of the Rhaetian Railway on the turntable in Landquart, in use as shunting locomotive number 4. The locomotive supplied by StadlerRail is powered by the overhea... (more)

CNW 8528 basks in some late evening light as it brings a loaded coal train past MP 107 (East Walker, WY.) on the joint CNW/BN coal line in May 0f 1991.

Re 620 # 026 (Re 6/6 # 11626) with the special "moustache" on the front, and Re 620 # 066 (Re 6/6 # 11666) of the SBB in multiple control pull the about 1250 ton HOLCIM gravel and sand t... (more)

Eastbound Conrail intermodal traffic on the Chicago line.

The Carolinian departs the station at Selma behind a clean P42. The train is coming off of the NS NC Line and onto the CSX South End Sub.

Random meeting of two Eurocity trains with 4 "Giruno" highspeed trains of the SBB in the Wattinger curve on the Gotthard mountain line between Gurtnellen and Wassen. On the left is EC 15... (more)

Mine Run R233 rolls around the bend at the foot of Burton Hill, while running alongside Ky Route 7 in the quiet community of Letcher, Kentucky. This train was recently loaded at Leatherwood and is... (more)

UP 4455 (0-6-0) switcher was built in 1920 by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1920 for the Union Pacific Railroad. It was sold in 1949 to Monolith Portland Midwest Company in Laramie, Wyoming, where... (more)

After letting presumably unhappy passengers disembark in Chicago after arriving near 8 hours late, the City of New Orleans train-set heads for the BN wye to spin, so it can be prepped for 59 later... (more)

On a sunny Saturday morning in Dolton, the Bottle train slowly rolls east on the CSX Barr Subdivision, preparing to hop onto the IHB Main at the switch up ahead. The bottles are bound for Clevelan... (more)

CPKC 8868 Leads CSX Intermodal I1666 Eastbound at sunset , through Deshler Ohio. The train had a mid former KCS unit as a DPU.