A quiet and foggy Saturday morning finds newly placed Great Northern caboose X-259 (built 1948) sitting on rails beside the city of Bemidji’s Great Northern Depot which was James J. Hill’s las... (more)

Flatback Electric. When the Pennsylvania Railroad was seeking to replace its P5a electric freight motor fleet, they looked at a number of options. The order for 66 of the General Electric E... (more)

Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad's B&O F7A No. 722 pauses on the bridge over the South Branch of the Potomac River in Moorefield, WV.

Lunch break for the Sandman’s crew.

GP9R 92 rests for it’s trip tomorrow to Moorefield.

Cube On The Cuyahoga. The Flats Industrial Railroad is a Class III railroad in the heart of Cleveland, Ohio. The line went through a long history of Class I operation with railroads, with s... (more)

A scene of the past, and may never be repeated again. Winchester & Western’s “Sandman” run to Unimin Sand Mine in Gore, VA is no more as the mine has halted operation, resulting in no revenu... (more)

East Broad Top 16 back in revenue service as the return of the East Broad Top Railroad has been a giant success.

Seminole Gulf 597 on it’s way back to the station in downtown Fort Myers.

The 1942 Baldwin-built oil-fired Frisco 4-8-4 No. 4501 is seen in this view from the rear of a Pullman car during our walking tour of the yard at the Museum of the American Railroad. One of three... (more)

A Grand Birthday. On February 1, 1913, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad opened the Beaux-Arts style Reed and Stem/Warren and Wetmore designed Grand Central Terminal to the publi... (more)

The Shenandoah Valley Limited, powered by J 611 is making a run for North Mountain, after backing out of Victoria Station onto the main line. An almost blemish-free operating season for VMT’s St... (more)

Conemaugh & Black Lick’s newest arrival #51 is at the interchange with Norfolk Southern at Woodvale Yard. The Woodvale section of Johnstown used to be much busier, as remnants of the steel mills... (more)

Penn Central Day. February 1, 1968 is a notable day in railroad history, as the Pennsylvania and New York Central Railroads merged to form the “Pennsylvania New York Central Transportatio... (more)

Top Design. It was not an April Fools' joke but very real on February 1, 2007, when the platforms at Grand Central on the MTA NYCT Subway 42nd Street Shuttle were given an upgrade by the re... (more)