Amtrak domed observation car Silver Horizon brings up the rear of the North Coast Hiawatha at the BN station on Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis on a wintry January morning in 1973. The former Californi... (more)

With a total snowfall of 730" recorded on Donner Pass, the winter of 2022-23 was one for the books and although the weather has finally started to warm, that much Sierra cement does not disappear ... (more)

Coming out of United Taconite and crossing over to Main 1 for the trip back north to the mine to reload.

The car trains on the Oberalp Pass are a thing of the past. On April 10, 2023, the last car train crossed the pass. Until the road was opened, a few car loading wagons were still attached to the e... (more)

Plying the same right-of-way once graced by the Southern Pacific's famous Daylight passenger trains, today's Coast Starlight begins to bite into the grade of Santa Susana Pass as it ... (more)

The Ae 6/6 11411 "Zug" was on March 11, 2023 as a locomotive train to Bodio and back to Erstfeld for a cab ride on behalf of SBB Historic. Photo taken shortly before Gurtnellen station, ... (more)

Around 12:30, CPKC Railway intermodal train 113 (Hochelaga, Québec, to Coquitlam, British Columbia), arrived in Field, British Columbia, for a crew change. Besides being on the western side of t... (more)

Dashing through the snow as it climbs Kicking Horse Pass is CPKC train 301, a grain train heading west to Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadian Pacific AC4400CW 8576 and Union Pacific SD70ACe 894... (more)

Morant's Curve (named to honor Canadian Pacific photographer Nicholas Morant [June 29, 1910 - March 13, 1999]) is best for eastbound trains … and, naturally, we got a westbound (CPKC 301, a grai... (more)

Morant's Curve, in Banff National Park, is perhaps the most well-known railroad photo location in the Canadian Rockies. So, of course, we paid homage to Canadian Pacific photographer Nicholas Mor... (more)

In a Montana snowfall, a BNSF coal train rolls westbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision main line at milepost 57 west of Trout Creek.

NORMAN OK — This undated photo shows southbound train 15 making a station stop with Amtrak SDP40f 519 in the lead. Of interest (to me at least) is the front end of our 1955 Chevrolet convertible... (more)

Coming up from Two Harbors to set out and pick up at Keenan yard, DMIR 400 now steps off the Missabe sub and onto the east leg of the wye onto the Iron Range sub for the return trip back to Two Ha... (more)

A pair of Metro-North FL9s lead a consist of "Boise Budds" north out of Peekskill, NY on the Hudson Line.

DMIR 400 departs Keenan Yard with the Southbound MRF to Two Harbors.