The Akron Local heads east to McCook, Nebraska with a pair of BN 40s in charge.

D&RGW #473 and #476 bark along Cement Wall deep within the Animas River Canyon outside of Durango, Colorado on October 16, 2023. #473 and #476 saw extensive use on freight train service from Salid... (more)

Cotton Belt 60' flat car 854668, carrying a pair of M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), was built by Greenville Steel Car in April 1969. The Cotton Belt's parent company, Southern Pacifi... (more)

The pay was low and erratic but being in the equipment business had its fringe benefits like the guided tours such as one that got us a trip through this great operation. This unit was originally... (more)

On a beautiful morning in the Twin Cities, CP 2816 makes its departure out of Pigs Eye Yard with a nice plume of smoke to boot. In charge of the Final Spike Anniversary Steam Tour, the "Empre... (more)

Early morning at the Tuckahoe Station

Tunnel Meets: Fresh NS 4753 leads manifest train NS 39G out of the Gallitzin Tunnels, as it meets the eastbound Pennsylvanian Amtrak 42 in the middle of a snow shower.

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)

Prowling in the street during the early morning hours, a YN2 pair leads 88 coal empties bound for Bailey Mine in Pennsylvania for loading and to eventually return to New Haven Power plant along th... (more)

Pickens Railroad crosses over Hwy. 29 in Anderson, SC during the resulting rain from Hurricane Francis in Sept. 2004.

PICK 9508 is a General Electric U18B built for the Seaboard Coast... (more)

A417's train pulls down to the west end of the yard at Jasper for a crew change with WCEX F59PHI 903 heading home after a rebuild in Georgia.

Cranberry country. A late afternoon excursion at the Edaville Family Theme Park's annual Christmas Festival of Lights circles the Turtle Creek Reservoir on the west side of the park, with a... (more)

Working Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Co, two of Sandersville Railroad MP15DC which were previously owned by Norfolk Southern, move some covered hoppers around.

BNSF Conductor Ryan Lehmuth gets ready to inspect a BNSF coal train which will meet the Denver to Provo train led by SD70ACe #8555 at Tolland, Colorado.

The Deseret Power Railway mine train loads at the tipple outside of Rangely, Colorado, making up what will be that afternoon's train to the power plant.