The Friday evening ZVL-2 crew starts their day in Zanesville, Ohio by taking the train across the Muskingum River to spot outbound cars from the ZVL-1 job on the OHCR Subdivision tracks and then s... (more)

Sitting alone outside Von Storch.

Beamish museum's annual Wheels of Industry weeked and guest engine in the colliery yard is Sir Berkeley. With the colliery buildungs at the back, a train of chaldron wagons are propelled through s... (more)

On a crystal clear evening in downtown Chicago, Metra’s Chicago Burlington & Quincy commemorative locomotive head ends an outbound rush trainset. Seen here from the Roosevelt Rd bridge.

One Geep, Two Geep, Red Geep, Blue Geep. Sometimes the headlines writes itself as MTA Metro-North Railroad's AMMO crew uses MNCW GP35r 106 106 (née-PRR 2274, GP35, 5/1964) to tow a "m... (more)

A Willow Springs, IL to San Bernardino, CA Z3 passes the Z-LACWSP1 as they both negotiate the tight curves of Crozier Canyon. Spring rain showers have brought out some hint of greenery to Arizona'... (more)

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train number 19, The Chief, is departing Barstow California with seven cars in 1933. Otto's speed estimate was 12 MPH. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

Here we get a good look of the new Phase VII paint scheme that has started to grace the P42DC's as the California Zephyr 6 train runs past the BNSF's intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.

Loaded grain train G-WTRKAL9-11A crests over the top of Marias Pass westbound towards Whitefish with the beautiful Rocky Mountain vista behind them.

CN 8952 leads CN Q116 though East Lansing Michigan heading to Moterm in Detroit, and after that CN Flat Rock Yard. About 55 minutes after this photo was taken 8952 would strike a down tree on the ... (more)

Powered by five Canadian Pacific EMD SD40-2s is CP’s wayfreight that operates between Golden and Cranbrook, British Columbia, is running southbound just south of Wasa on July 15, 2011.

The previous Cast Armor crew didn't make it home to Michigan Avenue Yard, so IHB SW1500 #1502 was sitting pretty on this sunny Saturday morning. A crew would show up not long into the future.

For two consecutive weekends the Welded Rail Train dropped rail on the mainline between Calverton and Manorville. When crews weren't working, the train was laid up on the Calverton Spur which is t... (more)

The Carolinian departs the station at Selma behind a clean P42. The train is coming off of the NS NC Line and onto the CSX South End Sub.

On a sunny Saturday morning in Dolton, the Bottle train slowly rolls east on the CSX Barr Subdivision, preparing to hop onto the IHB Main at the switch up ahead. The bottles are bound for Clevelan... (more)