Southern Pacific 4-8-8-2 number 4190 heads east with SP 3rd 824, a 76 car freight, at Los Angeles California in 1940. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.

A solid train of double stacks from the west coast crosses over a frozen Lake Ashtabula on the Karnak trestle near Luverne, ND.

Norfolk Southern's Operation Awareness and Response train is spread around the turntable tracks at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC, in advance of the museum's annual Fire T... (more)

General Motors Electro-Motive Division built just seven SD45X diesels in 1970 – four demonstrators and three for Southern Pacific Railroad. EMDX 4201-4203 were built with SP's typical array of ... (more)

Daylight begins to illuminate the Senate Ave yard job which is tied down on the tail track at the north end.

The CSX Chessie System Heritage unit leads the Loiusville to Philadelphia autorack train past the historic B&O Railroad designed station at Point of Rocks on a foggy July morning. Many Chessie ... (more)

Family Portrait Vintage stored locomotives baking in the early-April sun in Cumberland. Cumberland's dead line is one of the few, if not the only place, where one can see all 3 CSX paint s... (more)

Following some crazy Wyoming weather of rain and hail in late July, a Union Pacific engine move shuffles under the large signal bridge to the west of Cheyenne Yard.

Snow Cometh To Those Who Wait For The Erie. After more than 700 days without measurable snow, on the night of Saturday, January 6, 2024, NJ Transit Train 2122 was passing through the distin... (more)

Hlcx 3845 and other's sit around at Metro East Industries

The sun peeks out from behind the clouds to illuminate the CEMEX plant switcher, SD60I #8774

Beech Mountain SW 1500 ex CSX 1118 has brought a second cut of loads from the loadout, run around its train and shoved them to the interchange with the A&O. The next day another load of WV coal w... (more)

A westbound RCPE train is being tied down in the distance as the remnants of a recent derailment await further cleanup in the small town of Elkton, SD.

In the foreground is the DMIR 223, formerly the EJE 653. As sad as it is to know that this locomotive will not see revenue service again its kinda cool to see that the iron still exists. Lary's Tr... (more)

Fill ’er up at Washburn
Dakota, Missouri Valley & Western’s wayfreight pauses for fuel at Wilton, North Dakota, on August 27, 2018. Leading the train is one of DMV&W’s former Cana... (more)