A westbound BNSF manifest freight makes its way across the long bridge over Lake Pend Oreille linking Sandpoint with Algoma, Idaho, on a perfect October 6, 2018. More recently, the new bridge has ... (more)

The previous Cast Armor crew didn't make it home to Michigan Avenue Yard, so IHB SW1500 #1502 was sitting pretty on this sunny Saturday morning. A crew would show up not long into the future.

With airfare to Newark being 50% of airfare to Philadelphia, I flew into New Jersey for a cousin's wedding in Delaware. Doing so did give me the chance to ride the train to Wilmington and to get a... (more)

Re 420 # 279 (Re 4/4 II # 11279) of the SBB, with fold-up automatic coupler, pulls the mail train 50136 from Cadenazzo via Bellinzona-Gotthard mountain line-Erstfeld-Arth Goldau-Lenzburg-Olten to ... (more)

Re 620 # 026 (Re 6/6 # 11626) with the special "moustache" on the front, and Re 620 # 066 (Re 6/6 # 11666) of the SBB in multiple control pull the about 1250 ton HOLCIM gravel and sand t... (more)

The Carolinian departs the station at Selma behind a clean P42. The train is coming off of the NS NC Line and onto the CSX South End Sub.

Eastbound Conrail intermodal traffic on the Chicago line.

UP 4455 (0-6-0) switcher was built in 1920 by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1920 for the Union Pacific Railroad. It was sold in 1949 to Monolith Portland Midwest Company in Laramie, Wyoming, where... (more)

Random meeting of two Eurocity trains with 4 "Giruno" highspeed trains of the SBB in the Wattinger curve on the Gotthard mountain line between Gurtnellen and Wassen. On the left is EC 15... (more)

Mine Run R233 rolls around the bend at the foot of Burton Hill, while running alongside Ky Route 7 in the quiet community of Letcher, Kentucky. This train was recently loaded at Leatherwood and is... (more)

After letting presumably unhappy passengers disembark in Chicago after arriving near 8 hours late, the City of New Orleans train-set heads for the BN wye to spin, so it can be prepped for 59 later... (more)

A patch of sunlight illuminates an empty coal train as the Portage de Sioux power plant provides a fitting background.

On a sunny Saturday morning in Dolton, the Bottle train slowly rolls east on the CSX Barr Subdivision, preparing to hop onto the IHB Main at the switch up ahead. The bottles are bound for Clevelan... (more)

CPKC 8868 Leads CSX Intermodal I1666 Eastbound at sunset , through Deshler Ohio. The train had a mid former KCS unit as a DPU.

The California Zephyr 6 train was over 21 hours late getting into Denver after being held at Frazer, Colorado due to 98+ mph winds along the Colorado Front Range. Here we see the duel heritage ... (more)