What’s your question? Possibly the most popular question in northeast railroading - ‘Will the Battenkill run today?’ Sometimes you’re in the area and you feel lucky to hear the sound of th... (more)

On what turned out to be a very cold day a buddy and I drove the 212 miles from Anchorage to Cantwell where the Alaska RR snow fleet had tied up for the night. With a 0600 call time we knew we wou... (more)

With a flatcar of picnic tables behind Ernest the Engine sits along the CSX main between Louisville and Cincinnati. As for all I know it is non operational.

"The Yard Split"

After recrewing at CP3 the K139 continues north through Bellmans and Little Ferry Yards in North Bergen, NJ.

MSCI 488 leads a cut of cars south for storage.

I'm definitely not familiar with locomotives from the British Isles however in the community of LaGrange in the state of Kentucky resides one of theirs. The Flying Duchess that has been recently b... (more)

A Canadian Pacific work train is leaving Bluff yard in Plattsburgh, NY on a frigid December morning.

No mistaking that former C&NW Schoolbell.

Four restored units are posed on the west end of the East Union Depot. From left to right, BN 5383 (U30C), C&NW 411 (F7A), CB&Q 504 (SD24) and CRI&P 4506 (GP7R).

MSCI 488 trundles past the Victorian-style ex-Illinois Central Station on its way to drop off cars for storage further south.

"LIRR Cabin Car for Scrap" One of Long Island Rail Road's surviving hacks sits on a flatcar along with another in Holban Yard shortly after being detrucked and prepped for transp... (more)

A Fall colored engine leads the Macon bound freight train by the C-Line Junction on a nice Fall afternoon in North Georgia.

Laboring here in a relentless drizzle is about the biggest 0-6-0 that anyone could ever build, dwarfing the pacing pickup truck along Railroad Street.

As the evening rush hour begins, a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station behind an ex-PRR E8. The empty space to the left had accommodated South Station's bag... (more)

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)