You have entered a different world. Smoke from the Canadian Wildfires blankets Hornell as NS 903 departs Alstom which Acela Aveila Liberty set 7 to the NEC

Eastbound coal leaving Bluefield on track one while four additional trains await their turn. Next out will be the train with a variety of eight diesels on the head end. Identifiable are N&W SD40... (more)

CPKC Railway intermodal train 112 (Vancouver IMS, British Columbia, to Côte Saint-Luc, Québec) follows the Bow River as it rounds Morant's Curve, within Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rock... (more)

A westbound merchandise freight crosses the flyover at Frost. Trailing units are GP9 2292, GP20 3060, GP50 3818, SF30C 9519 and D8-40CW 855. Bringing up the rear are SD45 5349 and F45 5957.

BNSF 9647 was delivered with the Santa Fe warbonnet and in BN Executive colors to celebrate the approval of the BNSF merger on July 20, 1995. The colors on the 9647 were not adopted by BNSF as a... (more)

CP 2816 approaches Blackfalds as it heads south on the Leduc Sub.

El Capitan, AT&SF train 21, is seen descending on the west side of Raton Pass near Lynn New Mexico, on January 16th 1944. Note the wartime headlight visor on E6 13. Otto Perry photo, from my colle... (more)

What once was, the Elk River Railroad that has since been removed and shut down to be turned into a bike trail slowly exits the tunnel in Exchange WV. The crew is working today collecting all the ... (more)

On the Side Lines. The RBMN 1542 heads up a string of Reading and Northern engines that perform background service to the Star of the day that leaves them in the dust, or steam, so to speak. The ... (more)

High Wide On The Move. On July 13, 2016, Norfolk Southern Train H08 picked up a Siemens power device from the interchange with the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway in Port Jervis,... (more)

BNSF 9297 wears BNSF's initial experimental "Heritage" orange and green paint scheme. It featured a solid 3" red pinstripe that separated the orange and Brunswick green along the right carbody... (more)

The SD7/SD9 fleet of the Great Northern which dominated the Missable Division is being invaded by newer EMD SDs in the form of SD40s & 40-2s by 1975. BN 6009 is one of several seen at the Belknap ... (more)

"Retired Subways Through the Newburgh Mill"

On the cloudy evening of August 7th, 2023, a single New York City Transit Budd R32 (NYCT 3829) and a few R123 CWR railcars pass t... (more)

Not many EMC/EMD FT diesels, which pretty much were the locomotive that killed steam, were preserved – just two FTA units and three FTBs, although these Bs had been converted to Steam Heater Car... (more)

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)