SP 8799, now a camera car, sits near the diesel service facility in the West Colton Yard. Photo taken with permission.

ÖBB 999.106 and 999.103 on the traverser of the shed of Sankt Wolfgang. These cogwheel locomotives were prepared for the next service on the Schafbergbahn. Nowadays this line is served by the Salz... (more)

Train and bus collision in an accident simulation, for training to firefighters, paramedics and rescue teams

In the Brush at Titus - A pair of flat cars and two hoppers lay in storage on the Desert Line at Titus Siding near Jacumba.

On a October morning the fall foliage colors start to come in. The Viaduct, once known as the longest and tallest railroad structure at 2,053 feet long and 301 feet high, was partially destroyed b... (more)

"Kosciuszko Bridge Demo on the Lower Montauk" At exactly 8AM, October 1st, the old Kosciuszko Bridge was imploded in order to speed up the demolition process making way for the second new ... (more)

The Trans Siberian Express private train (Zarengold)on its way from Moscow to Beijing. Here in this photo a journey on extension of the Trans Siberian Railroad along the Lake Baikal, where the pa... (more)

Looking odd at first sight, a huge pile of crossties come rolling down the mainline with a gentlemen seemingly perched on top of them... In actuality, a CSX MAC truck is traveling in reverse with... (more)

In use for maintenance of tracks : machine for cleaning railway ballast, owned and operated by Sersa group Switzerland.

C&O F7(A) no.7004 sports an experimental paint scheme applied in 1960 to simplify the paint schemes, yet providing good visibility of the units at grade crossings. Two F7As nos.7004 and 7068, and ... (more)

Small power for a big road. Santa Fe GE 44-ton switcher 467 didn’t have drawbars but rather steel plates for shoving 2-axle buggies of green cross ties into pressurized creosote cylinders at the... (more)

This is not the way to treat a carload of beer. A split switch just south of the Birmingham station caused quite a pileup over half a century ago..

What can happen when a freight train splits a switch. Workers can be seen carrying cartons of Schlitz Beer from a damaged box car. Many a bottle of brew from Milwaukee was snatched by members of ... (more)

Hurricanes are not the only source of major flooding as anyone who lived thru The Great Flood of 1993 can attest. The Mississippi river set many records that year. Over a month after the river had... (more)