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)

Side view of the 4-8-2 "Mountain" express train steamlocomotive 241 A 65. After several years of extensive repair and refurbishment, the former French 4-8-2 express train steamlocomotive... (more)

At the Nixon Power Plant. SP 6785 6840 7424 8361 unload a coal train, at a Colorado power plant. The picture really depicts how the Southern Pacific looked the last few years.

Under the night sky, Civil War railroad icon "Texas" glows within its glass display case at the Atlanta History Museum.

The BN ran 2 intermodal trains to Denver out of Chicago. One ran early morning into Galesburg, and the other one at night. The night one has stayed thru the BNSF era. Train 65 was normally the day... (more)

Hey, You Never Know. On the morning of Wednesday, April 24 2024, Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA NYC Subway 1196-1200 (Bombardier, 2002-2003, R-142 option order) was traveling dow... (more)

Ex-Penn Central.

One of the new Metra 501 (rebuilt KCS, SD70MACs) rolls outbound, out of Union Station and across Canal St. in downtown Chicago Illinois

33053 and 33052 head the 6C56 1152 Grain - Shakespeare Cliff freight, conveying concrete lining segments for the Channel Tunnel, which was under construction at the time.

Military MAC | The sky grows ever darker over Watts, OK where a CSX SD70MAC leads a southbound military train across the Illinois River bridge on a cool Saturday, April 20, 2024 evening. Be... (more)

With a lone GP60, NS Local D76 shoves back to grab two centerbeam cars in Mount Vernon, Illinois on a breezy spring morning.

The Iowa Railroad is about to Ackley with loads for the CN. This small-time operation works between Clives and Ackley on this old ex-M&St.L railroad. The job works mornings coming north with loads... (more)

Sometimes, all the connections and apps in the world don't have one up on pure luck. This train was due here well before sunrise, but a refuel before leaving Baldwin was just enough time to break... (more)

The second of back to back trains on the Lynndyl Sub. A rare sight these days. UP 5336 hauls a bare table around the big sweeper at the south end of Lakepoint.

The diminutive size of the Colorado Railroad Museum's Golden City & San Juan Railroad's 8 Ton switcher is evident as it sits in front of a narrow-gauge caboose at the Golden, Colorado museum.