AT&SF rail gang at work just outside Santa Fe's only double track tunnel transposing rails on curves to gain more wear from them. Nelson, Ariz.

Every employee's nighmare --- derailed tank cars of LPG exploding and burning. When will it end? AT&SF derailment at Love, Ariz. on March 16, 1977, 65 miles east of Parker on the Parker Distri... (more)

Erie-Lackawanna ticket windows at Hoboken, New Jersey, in this 1981 scene. Photograph by John F. Bjorklundmore)

As the DM&IR name is faded out and into the history books by CN, a Wisconsin Central lock shows up on the former Missabe Road to protect the signal box at Ramshaw where the DW&P Rainy Sub crossed ... (more)

A cut of heavy-duty Department of Defense flatcars loaded with M1 Abrams tanks are on an eastbound Santa Fe (early BNSF) freight curving through Crozier Canyon near Valentine, Arizona, on the afte... (more)

A dark Southern Pacific searchlight gazes out into the dark November night. This signal may be counting it's days as many fellow searchlights have been removed from this line do to copper theft. H... (more)

On the west end of the BP's Du Bois Yard is an old tower from the days where there use to be a diamond between the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway and the Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad.... (more)

Hot car: An eastbound Chicago and North Western freight going through Sussex, Wisconsin, on May 24, 1986, had a car of lumber on fire. They stopped and cut the car from both parts of the train, wh... (more)

An old BN reefer basks in the morning sun at the Pueblo Railway museum. Clearly, we know who owned it originally.

AT&SF crosstie unloader "walking" his tractor from one car to the next at Spruce, CO.

A dormant oak tree soaks up the springtime sunshine as boxcars (and a lone tank car) on a Southern Pacific freight march past in the background near Tunnel 1 on Tehachapi Pass at Caliente, Califor... (more)

Built in late 2011 by Freight Car America, a loaded CSXT company hopper sits in the house track at Quinnimont, damaged from what appears to be the result of the June 2012 'Derecho' storm that was ... (more)

An eastbound loaded drag, struggling upgrade with 150 loads coal cars illuminates the EAS WS Cabin, nearing the completion of its assault over Alleghany. The time is 5:47 am, and first of the morn... (more)

A eastbound lights up the area as it heads for Clifton Forge, VA.

An eastbound loaded coal train grinds upgrade, east of Quinnimont, as seen from high above at the Grandview overlook. To the left of the scene, where the street lights are visible is the lcoation ... (more)