With millions of miles down in a previous life CP 2816 "The Empress" ran on tours up until '08 when it was pulled from service. After being put in storage for years the Canadian Pacific ... (more)

Bnsf 7259 has just brough the H-NTWTUL into town. Surprise visitor 2nd out and a long way from home rails.

Splitting the 'up rights' of a retired SP signal bridge, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr works up stream in the Truckee River Canyon just above Floriston. Leader 174 wears Amtrak's new phase ... (more)

NS 8099, the "Southern" heritage unit, shoots through The Plains, Virginia on the return trip from the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Actor Robert Duvall actually lives right around ... (more)

Do What You Love The same friendly conductor from my last photo pulls his train into Ridgeley Yard to end the day. Before the next run, trailing Dash 8 #561 will need some air compressor r... (more)

N&W 611 with a photo freight at Paradise Pennsylvania on the Strasburg Railroad.

Amtrak Midwest engines and cars up front with an Amfleet and Horizon food car toward the rear.

The American Orient Express (AOE) was a privately-owned, high-class passenger train that operated in conjunction with Amtrak from 1994 until 2008. A total of 11 streamlined cars were purchased and... (more)

A classic Western Maryland look, as WM-painted FP9 243 runs over "home" rails on its way towards Elkins. To the left is a connection across the Tygart River to the B&O Coal and Coke line... (more)

Three GP40s pinch-hit for the ailing C&O 4-8-4 No. 614 on a nice Saturday afternoon in October 1997. The lead unit was built as a GP40 in 1968 as the Penn Central's No. 3197 and rebuilt by Conrai... (more)

Conrail "Baby Tunnel Motor" rests between assignments at Port Newark.

DXC 5229 leads classmate 5310 across the Taramakau River at Jacksons with the outbound 'Tranz Alpine' service from Christchurch to Greymouth. Taken with a drone.

As the sun dips below the snowcapped mountains, BNSF L-MON8211-15A (MRL Night Gas Local) snakes around the chilly waters of the Clark Fork River.

On short term lease these units made things interesting in the nineties and I missed most of them but got lucky on this date. I might have caught him in the street in La Grange had gotten out a b... (more)

A street fair is interrupted by a heavy manifest as it crosses the Cuivre River at Old Monroe, Missouri.