Running over 7 hours late, Amtrak engineer Steve Pahl brings the Southwest Chief into Chicago with the assistance of a cascade green EMD widecab relic.

Slightly over 50 years ago Gresley A4 Pacific No 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower accelerates away from its stop at Potters Bar with the 7.15pm Kings Cross, London to Peterborough semi-fast train as my ... (more)

In celebration of its 150th anniversary, Union Pacific is running a special train around its system led by the famed trio of E9s. This morning the train departed Spokane after another successful ... (more)

A trio of Bessemer EMDs add a bright splash of color to an otherwise dreary day as they depart Conneaut with a loaded ore train.

Downhill on the Mountain Subdivision, westbound CSX Q317 passes the B&O Station and freight house at Tunnelton, nearing the completion of her crew run from Cumberland to Grafton.

'Mornin Roanoke! 67D stopped to swap crews and add fuel while the sun began its daily ritual. The 70Ace demo, 2012, had the honor of leading the empties back towards Chicago. Thanks HankDale for... (more)

GLC 393 splits off of the GTW at Pitt and starts back onto home rails as they head for Osmer where they will meet a AA crew that will take the 765 to the NS at Milan.

Patience pays off here overlooking Main St. in West Brownsville as after watching a trio of NS coal trains go down the street past me, the desired CSX train appears at 03:35, completely dominating... (more)

Union Pacific 4-12-2 9514, Class UP-5, was built by ALCO in 1930, one of eighty-eight locomotives. As built, she was numbered 9077, later re-numbered to 9514. These three-cylinder locomotives had... (more)

As the full moon dips behind the mountains, a fog has developed in the Coal River Valley this morning allowing for beams to project a red cast onto the Sproul Tunnel and surrounding brush.

Crossing the Nuese River near New Bern, NC in the early morning.

A southbound loaded Alaska RR export coal train rolls toward the Old Glenn Highway overpass just south of Matanuska Junction. In Anchorage, three distributed power SD70MACs will be added to the re... (more)

The Great Reunion. This was the unique occasion in steam preservation when 4 A4 Pacifics 60022 Mallard, 60019 Bittern, 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and 60009 Union of South Africa lined up at the Natio... (more)

With winds over 30mph, temperatures around -15, snow drifting 3 plus feet and the snow continuing all day, PM 1225 pulls the first NPE trip of the day through Henderson.

Time marches on, at a very slow 10 MPH, as STL+H 5593 leads train 470, the Rapid City to Huron train, passed an abandoned farm house near Wasta, SD. The CPR influence has started creeping into the... (more)