With the recent news that one of the quintessential regional railroads, Montana Rail Link, would soon disappear, it made me go back and look at some of my images from my only visit to the railroad... (more)

Yard Relay. An out-of-service F train is seen descending the yard lead to Culver Yard, part of the Coney Island Yard complex, having just terminated at Avenue X. Due to track replacement... (more)

An inbound Q train gets headroom at Hobart Tower as they break down their consist.

CR 6469 rattles across the NS diamonds in Marion, OH with an eastbound trailvan. The train is passing AC Tower that was active until 1994 and has since been moved across the right of way. It was q... (more)

Engineer John Belcher from the Moving America Podcast brings NS train 131 down the small grade into Meridian, MS with some think snow falling down.

KCS 2919, a 48 year old GP40-2LW, idles away at the Meridian yard on this cold January morning. 2919 began life as CN 9496 in September of 1974. The unit was on CN until the mid 90's when KCS boug... (more)

"Brightliners at Crooke"

On the morning of January 9th, 2022, the "R32 Retirement Extra", consisting of eight Budd Company R32 "Brightliner" railcars, flies up the BMT Brighton Line a... (more)

Summerail participants strain to get a look as this southbound freight rattles across the former NYC main by the restored tower.

Foreign Power. Norfolk & Western M-Class 12-Wheeler #475 sits in the hole next to the Pennsy interlocking tower at Lemoyne Junction, PA, awaiting clearance to proceed with her freight.

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Two Over Two. Amtrak ACS-64s 646 and 662 lead train 164(8) over Astoria-Ditmars Blvd Station, where two (N) trains wait. 662 is in a Phase III-esque wrap advertising Train Sim World 2. ... (more)

a pair of Northwestern SD40-2's lead a transfer train past the old C&WI 40th Street tower in Chicago Illinois

"Lantern Girl" heads off to work. Carrying a large cache of kerosene-burning railroad lanterns, our PRR "Lantern Girl" leaves the J-Tower for the nearby yard, to distrib... (more)

The "Lantern Girl". At the conclusion of the November, 2021 Historic Transport Preservation (HTP) photo shoot at Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, we had an opportunity to re-cr... (more)

Today's Star: In a scene almost reminiscent of the 1980s through the mid-1990s, ACS-64 #662, wrapped in Amtrak's classic Phase III paint scheme, leads the Silver Star, train 91, pas... (more)

Amtrak 768 crosses the San Pedro Sub at Hobart Tower as the train begins the 2nd half of its journey to San Diego.