Something I had never experienced until this day - 118 stopped to drop a string of IMS cars in the siding at SSS Palgrave, leaving the rest of its train on the main. 112, hot on 118's yellows, rec... (more)

Two EMD demo SD90MAC-H's sit outside EMD's LaGrange plant.

A Dash 8-32B removes empty tank cars from the Coca Cola plant in Roanoke, Va.

Delivered from Illinois on May 21st, the brand-new Northern Central Railway 4-4-0 "York" makes her first run at New Freedom, Pennsylvania on May 22. The locomotive was built by the Kloke Locomoti... (more)

Bayview local HB48 is east on the President St Branch, passing under CSX's Sparrows Point Industrial Track, en route to the Port of Baltimore Dundalk Marine Terminal.

An Alaska Railroad ballast train negotiates the south leg of the Wye at Portage, having just cleared the mainline for a southbound passenger train. Their chore for the day will be to spread ballas... (more)

With mainline dispatching woes hindering the flow of traffic on the Orin Sub, I found South Black Thunder Mine plugged with one load parked at MP 49.5 (the mainline junction), a pair of smoky SD70... (more)

The lobby level of the recently refurbished King Street station in downtown Seattle. For years, this had to be one of ugliest big city train stations. If you knew where to look, you could find g... (more)

WNYP 4228 and 637 lead the OL-3 into Cuba to set off three reefers at the Cuba Cheese siding before returning to Olean as light power.

The tractor makes it grow and the SLC brings it to market. South Central Colorado might seem like an odd place for such a relationship to exist, but it plays out everyday at above 7,000 feet here ... (more)

PHL 40 at LAUPT - A shot of Pacific Harbor Lines #40 on exhibit at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal for National Train Day 2013. Normally, a PHL engine would not be found at thi... (more)

When the Rio Grande depot at Provo was demolished late in 1986, a tiny wooden shack was placed in the parking lot, serving as the new waiting room for Amtrak patrons. I doubt these folks were all ... (more)

On a gloomy morning along the former Virginian Railway, No. S10 crosses a short trestle in Matoaka, W.Va., with what's left of the town looming below. In the late 80's, Norfolk Southern removed th... (more)

Awaiting in the yard/shop area of the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, Western Maryland 734 gets warmed up for the day to begin and a trip to Frostburg, MD and back. Also in the shot, Western Mar... (more)

Spring has sprung in most places on the UP system, but not here at East Portal. Even at this late date, the surrounding mountains still hold several feet of snow and sleet fell throughout the morn... (more)