The 1218 comes to Chicago and heads to Fort Wayne, IN on a railfan excursion. Many railfans greet the engine as it comes through the NS yard in Chicago.

Moving freight with steam - in 2013! After many years of sporadic activity, Strasburg Rail Road is again in the freight business. Here's 4-8-0 475 spotting cars at Strasburg, where the freight lo... (more)

This Bugatti railcar from 1933, referred as “presidential” in memory of its inaugural trip on the Paris-Chartres line with the President of the Republic, Albert Lebrun, was an alternative to the d... (more)

Campolide station overview

Norfolk Southern #9634 has some damage from a fire and it looks like the crew who put the doors back on didn't seem to much matter how the doors looked.

A loaded crude oil train rumbles across the former DM&IR double-deck Oliver Bridge.

Brakeman has flagged Harbor Way so NRE genset 2015 can cross, on its way to the BNSF yard. Model 2GS12B-R

Both Deliver - Walmart & the Union Pacific [National Train Day 2013] - A manifest bound for West Colton descends the Cajon Pass on the former SP Palmdale Cutoff.

An odd duck on the 1970s Southern, cupola cab X256 is in Southern colors, but lettered for S&A. It is sitting - midtrain for some reason - on the 1st Avenue bridge with the long-gone Southern Col... (more)

The tiny 25-ton is dwarfed by a damaged autorack car which is about to enter the Rail Car Washington shops for repair.

Streetcar MoHa 2000 series # 2002 from 1964 has to wait on the double track level crossing over the main road, while a 610 series train of the Iyo Railway (Iyotetsu) to Takahama is running in dire... (more)

Are these pairs of BN F45's the perfect helper locomotive, or what? Two pairs of 3600 hp cowled EMD locomotives gather at Wenatchee, WA between assignments helping trains over Stevens Pass in the ... (more)

A southbound CN trains passes close to an empty BNSF ore train (Allouez-Keewatin) just south of Superior.

Merger mania in Utah's Price Canyon: A trio of Southern Pacific AC4400CWs lead a stopped IPP train at Utah Railway Junction while a Union Pacific officer's special rolls by on the main, headed eas... (more)

With the warm June sun almost directly overhead, I decided 'directly overhead' was a pretty good spot to shoot this westbound UP manifest. In the lead was SP 335, one of the few remaining un-patch... (more)