I am in the cab of Milwaukee Road SD40-2 MILW 187, looking out at the various power in the diesel service area at the UP North Platte yard. It was quite an experience for my wife and I to get a V... (more)

The fireman of locomotive 1225 checks the firebox during an evening photo charter. Pere Marquette #1225 was built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. This locomotive was the very s... (more)

"A Team of Two": Enginemen Ryan Bausher and Shane Frederickson are working hard as a team to keep Reading & Northern #425 rolling through the Dutch countryside of Berks county, Pennsylva... (more)

NS 5230 sits just south of downtown Huntersville tied down for the weekend with a crescent moon looming in the background.

"NYAR 159, Rebuilt" New York & Atlantic Railway MP15AC 159 sits inside of Fresh Pond Shops awaiting electronics installation a couple days after returning from Altoona Works. 159... (more)

A look inside the cab of Fore River Transportation's 1969 GP38, which was originally built for Penn Central.

Bye bye to the Z5300 EMUs. This Saturday was the last trip with public on board for old "grandma" commuter Parisian trains. Cab view of the Z5362 EMU (see RPN#680300) which was build in February 1... (more)

Heisler Hogger, Sam McCloskey. As I visit the various preserved steam operations around the US, each railroad seems to have at least one engineman or fireman who has really mastered the &q... (more)

Controls of the iconic "Red Arrow" RBe 2/4 # 202, then owned and operated by the Oensingen-Balsthal-Bahn, now with association Swisstrain. This vehicle was built as Cle 2/4 # 207 by SLM, BBC, MFO ... (more)

GEXR 3030 drills the yard on a hazy October night in Stratford, ON. Panned hand-held at 1/8th.

Norfolk Southern's Madison District local, G07 stands at Machen in Shady Dale, Georgia as seen from CPR GP40-2 7001 making it's way north on March 23, 2018.

Hard to believe how "dangerous" we were in my early railroad days compared to now. 1st off...to have an electronic device on while at work is a big no-no, unlike back in 2004 (the photo)... (more)

Engineer D.B. of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) on the throttle of the most powerful 1 meter gauge cogwheel steamlocomotive of Europe, the 0-8-0 HG 4/4 # 704, entering Furka DFB station on ... (more)

Seen from the engineer's seat of the one and only renaming Alco C636, the day's Portland bound run drifts by in full dynamics lead by a pair of Delaware Lackawanna's Alco C425s at Pocono Summit, P... (more)

The Fall Foliage train drops back over the summit as it begins its return trip to Chester Vermont.