Coal drag from Eagle Butte Mine, Wy to Fayette Power Plant, Tx passes through the diamonds at Saginaw, Tx at restricted speed. This would be one of the last few trains that would pass through thes... (more)

Norfolk & Western SD40-2 6162 idles alongside Family Lines System C30-7 7067 at Kentucky Steam Heritage Corporation’s yard in Ravenna, KY, showing off its fresh repaint back into its original 19... (more)

Chesapeake & Ohio E8(A) 4016 leads train 20 The Pere Marquette at Traverse City, Michigan on a very cold day, January 15, 1965. Photo by E.L Huddleston, from my collection. ... (more)

Rolling eastbound on Montana Rail Link’s Fourth Subdivision is a BNSF manifest freight passing through a wintery landscape at the edge of the Clark Fork and a frozen Frog Pond as it approaches T... (more)

Magical winter scene in Budapest

BINGEN WA Sept 27 1978 — Burlington Northern GP35 2511 leads a mixed freight west on the Fallbridge Sub. Rolling trains were rare as this was in the middle of a nationwide railroad strike. My ph... (more)

Cumberland Mountain, TN The four and half miles of 2.5% grade make this one of the toughest grades on any mainline in America. The west slope presents an almost equally tough 2.3% grade. C... (more)

With one of the 7000's needing work done, the E unit was utilized to help pull freight north from Valdosta overnight. Typically this does not happen to keep her running well for passenger excursio... (more)

Two Union Railroad trains meeting on a bridge.

CSX 6914 sporting a new Chessie System nose logo. This was not done by CSX.

ATSF 2-8-8-2 1793 is seen on the west side of Raton Pass, near Lynn New Mexico, during WWII in 1944. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

On 1/18/2024, FEC unveiled their new paint scheme with locomotives 820 & 816. They have been rebuilt and had this new variant added to reflect the GrupoMexico corporate image. They plan to do th... (more)

When I climbed on top of this hill, I saw for the first time the Santa Fe derailment that happened just north of Highway 138 in Cajon Pass, and at first glance it looked like it was from an HO mod... (more)

Three trains awaiting crews, back in the days of coal, as the sun weakly peers through the humid haze draped over the Appalachian hills. "It's going to be another scorcher", as the old ... (more)

Sometime in the late seventies a WB freight is crossing the big trestle west of town. It may have been that blizzard we had one May 15th. Welcome to North Dakota.