While waiting to photograph a mighty Yellowstone led loaded ore train from the Mesabi Iron Range that was heading to the docks in Two Harbors, something caught my eye. Here was a recently install... (more)

Wilmington & Western's #98 is out pulling an excursion train to Ashland.

Two dash 8 variants run light towards BIT to grab a Bala Sub stack train.

The NS&T was the last survivor of Canada's true Interurban systems, and lasted until 1959 operating on the Niagara peninsula. This MOW car is a forerunner to today's snorkel apparatus used in ove... (more)

The first scenes recorded outside the U.S. by John, on his first trip to Canada September 6-7, 1953, were at the NS&T yard which was a CN property.

A clean Canadian Pacific unit rolls through Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to the delight and surprise of the photographers who were camped out en masse to await Railroad: Canadian Pacific Railway
Locomotive: GE AC4400CW
Location: Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Locomotive #: CP 8606
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: August 20, 2011

It's almost midnight and a light fog/rain/drizzle mix is in the air as a pair of signals protect the CN Iron Range Sub. at M.P. 66.3. In all types of weather, night or day they do their job.

Like a scene straight out of the 60's, George Detwiler, a volunteer with the Marion Union Station Association, poses for a photo as the AC Tower Operator in Marion, Ohio, in this shot from April, ... (more)

After years of service for her owner CPRail, former RS18u sits outside at Guelph Jct with hood doors open exposing the guts to the elements of mother nature. Used as a parts unit for a few of the... (more)

Westboud local out of Altoona heads for cutoff at Yukon.

A fauxbonnet and another BNSF GE team up to lead a junk freight through the plant at Edelstein. The train is beginning the short but steep climb over Edelstein Hill, and will drop into Chillicothe... (more)

First and second generation EMDs sit side by side at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. GP9 #521 is dressed in Norfolk & Western's "Tuscan Red" passenger livery, while GP30 #522 we... (more)

SP 3194 runs light at Farwell in what looks like a scene from the 90's.

Experience the 1950's along the South Branch Valley Railroad! Thanks to Chase Gunnoe for organizing this photo charter. Seen here, the full passenger consist rounding the curve in Romney, W... (more)