An NS locomotive assigned to the GM Plant in Wentzville, Missouri shuttles auto chassis from the yard to the plant building.

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Livingston, Montana was Northern Pacific's major diesel maintenance facility for their entire transcontinental fleet of freight and passenger locomotives as well as the Rocky Mountain Division... (more)

Santa Fe Livesl On the high desert of Utah, the Comstock Iron Mine uses a small fleet of ex. ATSF C44-9Ws to haul iron ore down the steep 2.5% grades of the mine railroad to an interchange ... (more)

Aberdeen & Rockfish's "new" ex-NS GP38-3 rebuild is on display at the company's office in Aberdeen. This locomotive was rebuilt from former SOU/NS GP50 7033.

An Island Paradise in the City. It would be very easy to lose track of the world outside the brightly-colored walls of the Rockaway Beach Surf Club while enjoying the tacos, refreshing ... (more)

Auto Train in Louisville? Yes, they operated there for a short time. If it had started in Chicago it might have made sense.

The Other Mohawk Crossing. Amtrak Empire Service makes daily trips over the Mohawk River over 2 different bridges from Schenectady, New York, but not on this bridge. As part of the process ... (more)

After a tragic derailment near Burns Harbor, The CSS 2010 is on the rail and just got started as part of the cleanup efforts. The CSS 804 had been the lead unit in the incident and has already bee... (more)

The fall colors have not yet found south east Pennsylvania as 2 trains wait to get into Enola yard while a ballast train comes across the Rockville bridge.

Hello old friend, it's been a while! At 83 years young, the EJ&E 450 is still alive today, but who knows for how much longer? An NW2 built in 1939 as the ATSF 2364, the 450 spends its days ... (more)

As my Kentucky sojourn was ending I decided to get back to over to this operation. While not as exciting as the Alco alligator that was here previously it was good to see at least one of the rare... (more)

In early November 2014, a CSX conductor safely rides the shove of a high and wide load as a westbound manifest backs up on track-2 approaching Stone Rd. with an interesting lash-up of power; CEFX ... (more)

HERMOSA WY July 3 1978 — Eastbound Union Pacific DDA40X 6914, Southern Pacific SD45 8888 and an SP EMD blast out of the east portal on track one. EMD built the unit (b/n 34540) in October 1969 a... (more)

Norfolk Southern Harrisburg to Chicago 47th Street intermodal train 25G led by NS 7532 is seen rounding Horseshoe Curve with foliage nearing peak in the Alleghenies.