Dead locomotives waits out their last days in Chicago Heights with their fate already sealed by the cutting torch.

EMDX 7237 is hard on its dynamics as it fights the downgrade towards the port of Manzanillo, on the front, a great friend gives a friendly wave

Better Than 194 Steps. The World Famous Horseshoe Curve in Altoona, Pennsylvania is a busy thoroughfare for both Norfolk Southern and Amtrak. Home to a park in the middle of the curve that ... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 14 working Circle S

It was a photographer's special steam run back in August of 2007, but this little critter was on the end of the train to pull it back to Knoxville. Railroad Pictures Archive tells me she was built... (more)

Back Lot Freight. Raritan Central Railway GP30M no. 5 and GP38 no. 2244 are seen shuffling cars in the back lots of the Raritan Center business park where the railroad operates.

Power Move. A trio of Amtrak locomotives are seen making their way south near LANE interlocking on the Northeast Corridor. Included in the consist are GP15D no.s 574 and 578, and GP38 n... (more)

W003 came to a stop for a half hour while work was completed on the geometry equipment. Because of it's stop at MP 21.5 it gave the opportunity to move down and grab this shot as CSX 9969 pulls th... (more)

CFS 2044 passed Breakeyville

Work continues in the Village of Voorhesville with the re-addition of Norfolk Southern's connector track to the Albany Main now fully connected to CSX Main Track 2 with foundations placed for the ... (more)

VAUGHN NM Sept 3 1983 — Santa Fe C30-7 8165 passes a signal with a TOFC train. GE built the unit (s/n 44079) in December 1982 with black on white number boards, a roof-mounted air conditioning u... (more)

New York & Atlantic RS 40 is dropping off eight stone hoppers for Astro Masonry Supply at Hicksville Team Yard.

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

The Niles Canyon Railway yard in Brightside, Ca. With it's panoply of engines, one can still feel what it was like to work with one of those horses.

Pickens Railroad Baldwin VO-660 sits right at the intersection of four roads in Pickens, SC with two box cars from the original railroad. This ws the last time i was able to make it before the rai... (more)