A Soo Line train using trackage rights on the Milwaukee Road derailed during its nightly trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in April 1984. I don’t recall the details, but I seem to remember that the ... (more)

Federal, state and local officials today celebrated the opening of the $142 million Englewood flyover, a major railroad bridge that has eliminated a significant source of train delays on the south... (more)

A broken drawbar is the least of the W&Is problems at the moment.

SP’s Texas and New Orleans (T&NO) subsidiary Mikado crossing the Bonnet Carre spillway returning to the KCS New Orleans yard. Additional information available at http://www.lasta.org

A pair of MTA Subway trains thread the low-rise, urban density of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The dome of the landmark Williamsburg Bank is the product of venerated architect William B. Post, also n... (more)

The CRSA special departs Union Station and explodes out of the new shed between Lake St and Canal St at the end of the morning rush. This train will head to Janesville, WI and return with a solid ... (more)

Oops! The Rose Yard job split some switches while doing their work this morning.

Coal empties tackle the 1.8% grade and reverse curves of the famous Crater Loops as they climb toward Toponas Summit, Steamboat Springs, and the Colorado coal fields on Union Pacific's Craig Branc... (more)

For the first time in many months, ex ATSF CF7 #2627 returns to service on the Clinton Terminal, hauling a cut of scrap gons into Clinton. This engine had been "deadlined" for months pri... (more)

It is the last day of the year in Anchorage, AK. The weather isn't too bad a balmy 14 degrees everything looks good for a railfan photographer, well in most cases anyway, except this is Alaska in ... (more)

The rails glow with the last minutes of sunset as a short eastbound crosses into Ohio on the former Nickel Plate.

Blue hour Saturday morning as Big Boy slumbers at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth after its run up BNSF from the Twin Cities.

On December 16, 1963, Santa Fe Train No. 2, the eastbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF struck a cattle truck just west of Clovis, New Mexico, derailing five F-units and 10 cars. Two days later, on a cloudy... (more)

Sometimes you never know, what you are going to shoot, coming out of the darkness at night. This night the train gods smiled again, as emerging from the dark at Westport Station, SOO SD 60 6042 le... (more)

The picture prop cab of AC4400CW #767 from Unstoppable now rests in an old gas station (that was later a cafe for a while) near the movie train headquarters, the Fillmore & Western.