Cogwheel locomotive HGe 4/4 II 102, built 1986 by SLM/ABB and delivered to the former Furka-Oberalp-Bahn (FO), is pulling eight empty passenger cars to Andermatt.

Dawn Over Gloss Mountains | As day breaks on a gorgeous Sunday, September 3, 2023 morning, a westbound train rounds a curve in the Gloss Mountains area of western Oklahoma, several miles so... (more)

Far from home: What may look like a scene out of SoCal with the canal and tall buildings is actually a scene from southwest Virginia. An eastbound stacker picks up speed after departing Roanoke w... (more)

SP cab-forward 4135 leads 61 cars westbound at 10 MPH, after exiting a snowshed in the vicinity of Donner Pass, on August 4th 1935. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The train passes the station which is no longer in service, in the direction of Vignola.

A three-aspect Safetran-style dwarf signal's bottom-most stop signal is buried within a few inches of fresh snow at the West End of Coal River Siding on CSX's ex-C&O Coal River Subdivision. The si... (more)

Pacific Coast 2-8-0 number 106 leads five cars northbound at 25 MPH on the narrow gauge line near Santa Maria California in 1938. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

The 600 mm narrow gauge steam locomotive #101 has been built by Tubize in Belgium in 1903. It is operating on the Pelion Museum Railway that is running between Ano Lehonia and Milies in Greece. Th... (more)

This Friday has seen the rather tame rush hour come and go, and now the sun has set and the number of trains start to dwindle. With that, NJT will now pull a lot of its sets from service and leave... (more)

So pretty good looking maintenance of way equipment working out on the Shafter Subdivision.

I was able to catch this guy out in the open. Big West Oil / Flying J, 1 working the refinery in North Salt Lake.

A double stack train picks up speed as it leaves the hollers and enters Salem, VA nearing a crew swap in Roanoke, VA. The train is passing over the Roanoke River at a rarely photographed bridge i... (more)

Union Pacific 7948 heads up the I-15 corridor on the Salt Lake Subdivision, with an empty coal train. Heading for Wyoming for another load.

Philadelphia & Reading 4-6-0 "Camelback" number 600 is seen leading two cars at 25 MPH near Albion New Jersey on August 11th 1932. Thank you, Gord Young from Peterborough Canada, for the very inte... (more)

This morning I photograph a recently overhauled "MERCITALIA RAIL" type E-412-019 locomotive, at the head of a container train.