The center cab 144 tonner is returning light from a morning run to haul forest products from the Interfor mill to Gilchrist Junction and is about 3 miles out from its home.

Union Pacific's Park City Local departs Morgan with eight hopper cars and a caboose on July 25, 1980. On the point are A-B-A GP30s No. UP 831, UP 836B, and UP 876. The train will pick up covered h... (more)

In her last use as a steam-powered machine, Interstate Railroad's derrick W-50 is helping to clean up a major coal train derailment on the steep (3.5 percent) descent from Crest to Appalachia, VA.... (more)

Conrail 6009 west bound at Bradenville, PA. 3/19/1999

Amtrak 12-187, P030, Capital Limited east bound at BF-294.5 CSX Pittsburgh sub, West Newton, PA. 9/07/2014

It's an interesting morning at the BNSF engine servicing facility as we see a visiting Citicorp ES44AC and a newly painted lime green SSRX 9525 (GP38). In the background the BNSF is moving a stri... (more)

With the emergence of remote control engineers, there appears to be no need to man the control tower overlooking the Union Pacific's North Yard - at least I have yet to see anyone up there. I bet... (more)

As Amtrak service increased in the early 21st Century, the North Carolina Department of Transportation built a new station in Cary, eight miles west of the state capital of Raleigh. Opened in 201... (more)

The Central of New Jersey Heritage Unit 1071,Leads the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Heritage Unit 1074 and a CP ES44AC on H-68,the Daily Allentown PA to Reading PA and Return Local on a Cold bu... (more)

An EMD GP9 awaits an assignment at North Yard in Salt Lake City on July 25, 1980. The UP 189 was built by EMD for the Union Pacific in April 1954 and retired from the active roster in October 1983... (more)

An extra section of Q156 heads South on the CSX River Subdivision behind a pair of Union Pacific SD70M's. An empty oil train had collided with a truck on this line the night before delaying many t... (more)

CNW 1725, a GP9 still in its delivered color scheme idles with a pair of rebuilt SD9s at St. Paul's Western Avenue Yard. Some of CNW's GP9 were delivered with roof top air tanks to permit larger f... (more)

Bound for Baker City. After a brief stay in the hole at Hawley to allow a westbound freight to pass, Mixed Extra 19, resumes its eastbound journey toward Baker City, with half a dozen freig... (more)

A CNW "Scoot" heads northwest on CNW"s Harvard line at Des Plaines, IL. The train is about to cross the Soo Line diamond and will cross the CNW freight line in a quarter mile. Thes... (more)