WB mixed freight with a former Southern unit in charge clatters across the CSX diamond at a place in The Falls City now vastly changed.

CP GP20C-ECO 2246 sits in downtown Davenport with the 2023 CPKC Holiday Train for its stop.

Westbound on the Harriman Cutoff, near Dale Junction. Trailing units are SP SD40T-2 8246 and UP SD40-2 3677.

Taken with permission three years ago today during a blizzard on the side of Raven Rail's D&H 3021 featuring the former Saratoga & North Creek Railroad BL-2 52, the Batten Kill 4116 lead a train o... (more)

AT&SF train number 20, The Chief, is seen at Needles California in 1933. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

BN 9859 (Passenger number), an SDP45, is seen in freight service at Minneapolis' Harrison St. roundhouse. With the creation of Amtrak, BN was quick to pull SDP40s & 45s off passenger trains and mo... (more)

WCRR 9124 leads the Santa's Express out of the West Chester station.

"Conveying Retirement"

As the sunlight fades away on February 3rd, 2024, Amtrak MP15DC 537 sits coupled to a cut of retired MFS-40 Conveyor Hopper cars at Cedar Hill Yard in... (more)

Amtrak engine #174 in the new Phase VII paint brings the California Zephyr through the BNSF yard in Denver, Colorado.

Former Santa Fe B40-8W 552 leads 452 South through North North Aurora.

The locomotive the River Mite belongs to the Ravenglass and Eskdale railway, a narrow gauge line in the Lake District. It was built in York and made history by being delivered to the railway by me... (more)

On January 6th, 2024 an MBTA/Keolis work extra moved B&M RDC-2 #6213 and B&M milk car 1930 from Boston Engine terminal to the former shop complex at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica. The Budd RD... (more)

Clawing under storm’s edge
We were on Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2023, when the nice weather began to change as thunderstorms moved in from t... (more)

A Montana Rail link ballast train is slowly filled at the loader at Spire Rock, Montana, on September 14, 2010. The railroad uses the former Butte main line now called the Spire Rock Industrial Tr... (more)

They’re only this clean once…. The first trio of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. New England Central C40-8Ws, NECR 4064, 4066, 4063, complete with the red marker lights of Conrail heritage, along wit... (more)