Conrail TV-556 approaches the Secaucus Road grade crossing in North Bergen while traveling down the Northern Running Track (former Erie Northern Branch) at a brisk 15mph. NYS&W's Resources Termin... (more)

Westbound coal hoppers returning to the mines. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

Although the timetable calls this train the "Northwest Talgo," conventional Superliner equipment is being used tonight.

Conrail SECS hits the curve south of Ridgefield Park station behind a trio of six-axle GEs. So much has changed in the thirty years since this photo was taken. Aside from the obvious, the lack o... (more)

MGRNP-24, a soda ash train out of Green River, WY, pours on the power as the heavy outfit ascends the grade toward Sherman.

A hot Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway piggyback train, BNSF 9-896-24, passes through the station of May as it heads east out of Los Angeles behind ATSF SD40-2 5084, which has not yet been ren... (more)

Union Pacific "Quality Manifest" train 1-WCKC-Q-(K)-17 passes through the Hinda Crossovers as it heads east from West Colton CA to Kansas City KS. Still early after the UP's acquisition... (more)

A late winter day along the Sidney Sub in western Nebraska finds a predominantly C&NW power set leading 12,000 ton West Colton manifest MNPWC-9 towards Cheyenne. Fuji Astia.

8057 was found leading three other CSX SD40-2s on Conrail ALCS west out of Allentown Yard.

Much of the railroad scene has lost its appeal to me with the sameness or removal of signal systems, the prevalence of container boxes in lieu of rolling stock and the bloated merged systems that ... (more)

BN leased 100 SD60s in 1986. The units were frequently seen on coal trains, although customarily in the company of other Oakway units or BN green SD40-2s and C30-7s. Yet here one of the Oakways l... (more)

During an era when a seemingly (and sometimes literally) endless parade of coal trains prevailed across the Nebraska plains, UP 9258 with an SD90/43 MAC and an SP AC4400 lead an empty coal set out... (more)

Conrail ALEN departs Allentown Yard, passing through CP Allen behind an "all blue" 5-unit consist that also included a C30-7, GP38, GP38-2 and B23-7.

Amtrak EMD SW8 No 749 switches some Heritage Fleet passenger cars on the tracks adjoining the railroad’s Chicago, Illinois, locomotive facility in a view from the 18th Street overpass on Februar... (more)

UP's first Dash9 leads another in C&NW paint and an SD60M back when DC power ruled the rails. The string of empties headed for the Black Thunder Mine in the Powder River basin is about to hit the ... (more)