Pulling away from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and passing the famed Casino and Coconut Grove and heading to "Christmas Town". In the past 80 years little has changed except the trains themselves. Th... (more)

The grade is as steep as in the mountain even where the Lima - Galera - la Oroya main line crosses the mining city of Casapalca.

It's the day after Thanksgiving as a southbound Laurel, MT to Denver, CO Manifests rolls on through Longmont on a pleasant yet chilly morning.

CSXT 4701 leads E813 past a house along Main St in Elizabeth proudly displaying the American flag.

N15 heads south on the street with the "rare unpatched nose" Valley Girl 2nd out. 8104 would eventually lead the next morning to bring the loads back.

Perils of Urban Railroading, Part II: Unused track. After awhile, it becomes a driveway for trucks to use, bubbling up mud, destroying the roadbed, pushing the rails out of gauge. Foot by foot, th... (more)

Perils of Urban Railroading, Part I: The bikes. And the trucks. There were plenty of both in the way of the Lil'Beaver and its crew of the Ballard Terminal Railway in attempting to serve its small... (more)

Uh Oh! 5-0, Po-Po! NS 191 rumbles down the middle of 6th Street as a Richmond County Sheriff speeds to try and beat him to the next crossing. After turning on his blue lights a few seconds ... (more)

As the sun drops behind the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles, the warm glow of the last rays of sunlight illuminate a southbound MTA Gold Line train as it crosses the L.A. River on the classic ... (more)

A Los Angeles MTA Expo Line train heads south out of downtown Los Angeles on November 11th, 2012. This is the point at which the Blue Line to Long Beach and the Expo Line to Culver City separate, ... (more)