A pair of 2-8-2s, including C&TS No. 488 and Rio Grande Southern-painted No. 455 tackle Cumbers Pass with a fall excursion train for Antonito, Colo.

A salute to summer... Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 spans the New River at Hawks Nest on its way to Chicago from New York City on Labor Day Weekend. The train has nearly complet... (more)

A BNSF Railway container train for Barstow, Calif., climbs the grade at Siberia in the early morning sun.

Eclipse of Albina. The day has turned nearly night as a 99.2% eclipse shadows the Union Pacific engine service facility and Portland.

Ascending Tehachapi Pass on its way to Barstow from Bakersfield, five BNSF locomotives pull a stack train across UP's Mojave Subdivision on the beautiful, and still usually green, Tehachapi Pass i... (more)

The very last Norfolk Southern-ran NS 380 rolls into Maben, W.Va., after a heavy rain. Within a few hours of giving up its track authority, this section of the former Virginian Princeton-Deepwater... (more)

Built for the Burlington Northern in 1978, BNSF EMD SD40-2 No. 1664 shuffles a cut of freight cars in BNSF Railway's Winslow Yard on its former Santa Fe Transcon in Arizona. The train is framed by... (more)

Climbing out of the high desert of northern New Mexico, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief No. 4 climbs Raton Pass on its way to Trinidad, Colo., from Raton, N.M.

Northbound on the Kanawha River Railroad, UP ES44AC No. 8105 leads a coal train toward Hobson, Ohio, from the coalfields of southern West Virginia. While operated by Watco crews, this coal train i... (more)

Running more than 15 minutes ahead of schedule, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 heads for Huntington, W.Va., from Charleston, W.Va., on the CSX's ex-C&O mainline. With a scheduled arriva... (more)

Nearly completing its run form Portsmouth, Ohio, to Williamson, W.Va., the Norfolk Southern OCS, led by NS F9(A) No. 4270 leans into Naugatuck on the former N&W Kenova District mainline.

Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 barrels alongside the seemingly deserted streets of downtown Charleston during the 4th of July holiday weekend. The train, which is running only about 50 ... (more)

With AEP's John E. Amos Power Plant in the background, the third northbound coal train on the Kanawha River Railroad for the week rolls through Black Betsy just north of Poca. The coal-fired power... (more)

Amid a railroad landscape that is constantly changing with modernization's to infrastructure or the restructuring of how obscure railroads operate, there's only one constant guaranteed in Appalach... (more)

Amtrak EMD F59PHI No. 456 leads a southbound Pacific Surfliner through Encinitas on its way to San Diego from Los Angeles.