Some days just nothing goes right.

It is approaching 8:50 a.m. and the Atlantic Limited is near the end of its overnight journey from Montreal via the shortcut across northern Maine.

C&TS ex-DRGW narrow gauge rotary OY plows eastbound just west of Cresco siding. This was the first operation of the OY since 1997, and was part of a two day event hosting about 150 photographers ... (more)

The former Great Western now Strasburg 90 doubleheads with a former CPR 4-6-2 over the the CNJ north of Jim Thorpe.

Can't remember exactly where this was (probably Radnor), nor can I identify a unit number, but this is a former North Shore Electroliner on the Philadelphia Red Arrow Lines (former Philadelphia an... (more)

Large arched roof train sheds such as this are common in Europe, but the only ones I can think of in the U.S. are Reading Terminal and St. Louis Union Terminal. Can anyone name others in the U.S.... (more)

Ten wheeler No. 3, the movie queen, simmers outside the Jamestown roundhouse. This facility is now part of the California State Railroad Museum and looks about the same today as it did 50 plus yea... (more)

The crew of a Chama to Durango train gets ready for departure. This is the next to last year of operation of the narrow gauge by the DRGW.

DRGW 488 patiently waits its turn at Cumbres while the road engine takes water. Note the snowshed, now gone.

A Vancouver bound BC Rail train descends into the Fraser River canyon. A few miles ahead it will cross the river at Lilloet.

The Weiyuan Coal Railway is only about three miles long, and runs to a truck reload. It exists on a day to day basis only because local village elders will not let the coal company drive coal tru... (more)

The Del Monte departs San Francisco on its daily journey to Monterey. Apparently the usually assigned streamlined chair car was bad order, so a heavyweight Harriman sub was substituted to go thro... (more)

Extra 498 west climbs out of Willow Creek heading toward the Continental Divide at Azotea and ultimately Durango. One of the oddities of the Alamosa to Durango line is even though it crossed 10,00... (more)

Our reservation at the Nugget hotel in Sparks requested a room with a view of the rail yard. When we checked in the desk clerk volunteered that a higher floor would provide a better view. When w... (more)

Fegua 181 doubleheads with road engine 204 leaving Escuintla for the climb up the 3.7 percent (ruling) grade to Palin Pass enroute Guatemala City. Both engines are postwar products of Baldwin. T... (more)