The Santa Fe Super Chief is seen at Albuquerque New Mexico in 1943. Note the wartime headlight visor on the EMC E6. Jack Delano photo, from the Library of Congress collection and my collection.

Above average temperatures and little snowfall have made for some fog filled nights as evident by the beams from the signals at Noimi Jct. on the CN Minntac Sub. A CN mixed freight is northbound ... (more)

Looking like a MAC daddy on display at Fairbanks Railroad Day is SD70MAC # 4328 in a special scheme influenced by Alaska Railroad's first blue and yellow locomotives of the 1950s. This year, 2023... (more)

West Virginian Ways | Loaded coal train 766 crawls up the mainline on the famous Elkhorn Grade of the Norfolk Southern Pocahontas District, passing a coal transload facility near the commun... (more)

BNSF intermodal exiting the famed Tehachapi Loop.

The westbound California Zephyr passes through a Winter Wonderland in the midst of the area known as the Tunnel District. This is on UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision, located about 26 miles west of ... (more)

As Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 slowly makes its way toward the Metrolink mainline at the northern end of the Fairplex (location of the Los Angeles County Fair), a process that will take... (more)

Norfolk & Western 475 leads its passenger train up the grade at Esbenshade at sunset.

Midcoast Rail Service RB-2 is seen crossing the 1916-built 995-foot Wiscasset Bridge spanning over the Sheepscot River. The train will continue over the long causeway and across another bridge bef... (more)

Freshly painted Colorado Pacific-CXR 316 at Alamosa, CO. New owners for the former San Luis and Rio Grande RR. I will be back again, hope it all pans out for them.

After concert performances in Hermon, Brownville and Jackman the day before, the CPKC Holiday Train is leaving Maine. The train has just left Jackman and is crossing the Pat McKinney Bridge over t... (more)

On a beautiful fall morning, VIA Rail's westbound Canadian races along the calm Yellowhead Lake in Yellowhead, BC on October 1st, 2022.

Crescent, Colorado, received 42 inches of snow in a major Front Range storm on March 13-14, 2024. On the morning after the blizzard, BNSF’s Provo to Denver priority freight rolls eastbound on Un... (more)

When I was ten, in the "Roanoke Times" newspaper, I saw a shot of N&W steamers lined up in rows with sparks of acetylene cutters coming up somewhere. Here, in a contaminated field by a ... (more)

Former Santa Fe Dash 9's converted into KCS MW units.