When green was new
Brand-new Burlington Northern EMD SD60M No. 9256 gets set up in Clyde Yard engine facility at Cicero, Illinois, on January 26, 1991, back when locomotives in a coat o... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s Paradise Local rumbles along the Clark Fork just west of Eddy (east of Thompson Falls), Montana, on January 24, 2013. A build-up of ice on the rocks on the edges of a cove al... (more)

The Reading unit works the paper mill in Spring Grove pictured here heading for another cut of coal cars.

A unit oil train is framed through the empty window of an abandoned Sinclair gas station along old U.S. 30 through James Town near Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of March 12, 2012. Sunset ... (more)

Northbound Amtrak 118 pulls the Coast Starlight with a Iowa Pacific dome car on the end across the Gaviota trestle on a winters day.

ChS4T locomotive with passanger train crosses Oka river, the largest right tributary of the Volga. Not far from that bridge in Nizhny Novgorod city Oka river flows into the Volga. The width of the... (more)

RJ Corman's "Old Kentucky Dinner Train" encounters a rock slide just past the tunnel at Eastwood. The alert crew brought the train to a safe stop well short of the slide. Photo taken from railro... (more)

FCEN 65 awaits the call of duty at their operation in Newberry, FL.

Thanks to the heads up of a fellow railfan, the EDMO finally makes a long awaited appearance as it rolls west over the Hoosic River. This all EMD lashup features three of the HLCX lease units tha... (more)

In the longest days of the year, the sun sets down the Aurora Sub between Milledgeville and Chadwick. One of these summer days in 1998, the sun is a red ball as it lights miles of track. If one co... (more)

Oops... A BNSF Big Stone Power empty coal train looks to have been sideswiped by some loaded grain cars from the Aberdeen Wheat Growers' Plant on the west end of town.

By the mid-1980s, most cabooses on the D&RGW were living on borrowed time. Caboose 01489 was spotted in fresh paint near Provo on June 20, 1984. It was originally constructed by the Rio Grande at ... (more)

A school bus loads children at the stop near the church as an empty coal train works its way back into the McDowell County coal fields. The train catches a red signal and comes to a stop just befo... (more)

Enclosed merchandise is not the only thing boxcars carry.