Growing up in the Appalachians I thought you had to have hills to have coal mines. Southwest Indiana isn't like that. Mostly it's flat, much of it is wasteland, covered with half-grown timber, s... (more)

Blissville in Bloom. New York & Atlantic Railway train RS-40 is seen switching cars at Blissville Yard in Long Island City, Queens. The train will soon make its way back east to Fresh P... (more)

Ottawa Valley Railway's train from North Bay (431) has arrived and after a power shuffle heads to the east end of the yard to build its return trip. OVR connects CPKC to the Ontario Northland haul... (more)

Midnight Blue And A Blue Sky (Redux). Amtrak 100 (P42DC, 50th Anniversary, Midnight Blue) is in a unique paint scheme that represents the "commitment of our employees moving people around t... (more)

Elephant Style. A pair of elephant statues look on as CSX AC44CW no.s 3162 and 159 pass nearby on the West Shore Line, leading train M403 through Ridgefield Park, NJ. The pair are fitti... (more)

B117 crossing the Catskill creek.

A loaded GRDX coal train climbs the hill.

Union Pacific Railway's shuttle that hauls rock from a quarry in Cabazon to a facility in Gardena (south of downtown Los Angeles), symboled R WCWCC 18 (because it technically originates and termin... (more)

Metropolitan Railroading. New York & Atlantic SW1001 no. 101 and GATX leaser GP38-2 no. 2200 are seen leading train RS-40 across Metropolitan Ave on the LIRR Bushwick Branch, crossing ... (more)

One of the great things about the Santa Fe was the potential for variety in a lash up. This afternoon westbound doesn't disappoint. Lead by a B40-8W, F45 5963, SD45-2 5853, FP45 96, GP39-2, and a ... (more)

Coal empties roll west through Davy. Trailing unit is SD70 2519

Livani peat railway

Re 4/4 # 170 and # 192 (Re 425 # 170 and # 192) of BLS Cargo in Brig. Unfortunately, the locomotives of this series are usually quite dirty and dusty, as they are mainly used in the car transport ... (more)

On a crystal clear evening in downtown Chicago, Metra’s Chicago Burlington & Quincy commemorative locomotive head ends an outbound rush trainset. Seen here from the Roosevelt Rd bridge.

Tying up
The conductor does some last minute paperwork and the engineer shuts down the power as Watco’s Palouse River & Coulee City freight ties up at Mockonema, Washington, on Septem... (more)