Norfolk Southern's "Honoring Our Veterans" unit, SD60E #6920, leads train Z85411 (P54) away from Washington DC after being on display for National Train Day on May 11, 2013. The Nation's Capital ... (more)

Union Pacific in our Nation's Capital! Here UP 4795 with half a nose logo leads an additional section of Q226 from Louisville, KY to Jessup, MD. Later that night they spun the power in Baltimore... (more)

An Extra Benning Switcher heads back across Anacostia Railroad Bridge after switching tracks on its way to pick up some coal loads. Unfortunately only the lead unit is operating properly and the p... (more)

With the animal cars already spotted by the B701, the extra B642 crew shoves the next cut of cars down into Benning Yard for unloading.

The RBBX Circus Train is back in our nation's capital! Here, Benning Yard local crew B701 is pulling the animal cars off of the main consist so that they can be respotted onto the Anacostia Stora... (more)

Locomotive Bling: When Southern Railway's Ps-4 Pacific number 1401 was cosmetically restored by a paint crew from a local auto body shop (under an outdoor shed in Alexandria) in 1961--in preparati... (more)

Who among us wouldn't like to climb into the left hand seat box behind the fireman of Southern Ps-4 Pacific 1406 on this 1941 afternoon at Washington Union Station's Ivy City Engine Terminal? Perh... (more)

Beautiful PS-4 SRR #1401 is crammed into the transportation wing of the Smithsonian, where it has resided for decades. It is in excellent condition, cosmetically, but will not likely ever see liv... (more)

B&O E9A 1441 looks to be ready to head out of Washington Union Station while a PRR GG-1 looks on in the background. The old B&O livery was very dignified.

Amtrak F40PH 406, recently repainted into a celebratory 40th anniversary edition of the Phase III scheme, sits on display at Washington Union Station during National Train Day, Saturday, May 7, 20... (more)

Got to love Phase III.

I was leaving Washington Union Station with a bad cold and no train shots. Then this bold little RS-1 showed up still switching after all these years. So I did photograph the cathedrals of democra... (more)

Amtrak's Palmetto, which holds the distinction of being the first train I ever rode on my own as a youngster, back in 1976, is seen here 32 years later passing by my window at the L'Enfant Plaza H... (more)

Great hall of Washington Union Station, seen from the upper level of Center Cafe.